my brother is. . .

. . . almost too cute to bere!

Not to mention one of the two best little hockey players I know.

The end.

The gravestone of the unknown soldier, from when he was buried in France. The room is designed so that at precisely 11:00 on November 11 every year, a shaft of light comes in the window to illuminate the stone.

Oh my. The Afghanistan exhibit.

Part of the Berlin Wall.

We have seen the face of peace.

And it is not what we expected.

Cold War exhibit.
A warhead, I guess.

This is the inventor of the AK-47.
Don't mess with the best 'cause the best don't mess.

The Korean War was followed by the Cold War decades.
This is an AK-47.

Grampa visited Kap'yong about 30 years later and laid a wreath on the memorial.

He told me about the battle of Kap'yong.
It's not a well-known story, but a few hundred Canadian soldiers held off six or seven thousand Chinese soldiers.
See a video here.

At one point he went four months without having a shower.

Yes, this hand.

One of the best parts of the visit was the exhibit on the Korean War, which my grampa experienced first hand.

Grampa and his friend Reg with a map of Antarctica. Reg had just gotten back from an Antarctic cruise, and his ship had rescued the crew of another ship who were stranded on a deserted island. Read about it here.
And it happened near a place called Deception Island, which is just an awesome name.

Those of you who have travelled with me will know that I really wanted to kiss this guy. . .
but he was German, and my Grampa was right there. . .

This was an exhibit about the Allied invasion of Italy in WW2, which came down to house-to-house warfare.