Memorial Day NL

One hundred years ago this year, the Newoundland Regiment earned the designate 'Royal', following their display of bravery and discipline during the Battle of the Somme.  Every year on the first of July, while the rest of Canada is celebrating Canada Day, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador remembers  with sadness the sacrifice at Beaumont Hamel where so many young people lost their lives.

A few years back I started writing a song from out the blue that eventually became a story of a young Newfoundland soldier who goes off to war. I broadened the tale to include our present day men and women in uniform because sadly, world conditions still require that we send them into the fray in the most dangerous of places. All of us who enjoy our freedoms and indulge in our guilty pleasures (whatever they may be!) owe an immeasurable debt to these people. We are wise to remember.

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 This song was the last cut on my 'Migration Song' cd recorded last fall with David Fitzpatrick doing a great job producing and musically enlivening. Please give this song a listen, feel free to share and play. Comment, critique, and sing, but most importantly, think.
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Snowden Walters
​Outer Cove.