{"id":11215,"date":"2015-11-11T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T05:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11215"},"modified":"2015-11-09T06:16:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T11:16:11","slug":"je-me-souviens-11th-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11215","title":{"rendered":"Je me souviens- 11th November"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Je me souviens&#8230; I remember<\/h1>\n<p>This phrase is on the Quebec license plates and I thought it seemed fitting to use it in relation to Remembrance Day as we remember the brave men and women who fought for our freedom and continue to do so today.<\/p>\n<p>I remember him every day but especially on 11th November. My dad served with the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders from 1942-1945.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1629\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/robertsarmypic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1629 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/robertsarmypic.jpg\" alt=\"souviens\" width=\"640\" height=\"819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/robertsarmypic.jpg 640w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/robertsarmypic-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Anderson Robertson Jul 30, 1913-Apr 29, 1969<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During that time, he was granted leave to attend his brother Angus&#8217;s wedding. Little did he know at the time it would be the last time he saw his brothers and and sister, Chrissie again.<\/p>\n<p>Angus and my father, along with two other brothers who served &#8211; William and Andrew &#8211; survived the fighting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-842\" style=\"width: 846px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/anguswedding2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-842 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/anguswedding2.jpg\" alt=\"souviens\" width=\"846\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/anguswedding2.jpg 846w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/anguswedding2-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peter, Robert and Angus Robertson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And during the horror of war, there were times to unwind and have a few light moments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1699\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/army.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1699\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/army.jpg\" alt=\"L-R. Unknown, Robert A Robertson (my father)\" width=\"640\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/army.jpg 640w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/army-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R. Unknown, Robert A Robertson (my father)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1698\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1698\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/army-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1698\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/army-2.jpg\" alt=\"L-R. Unknown, Robert A Robertson (my father)\" width=\"640\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/army-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/army-2-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R. Unknown, Robert A Robertson (my father)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know who the man is in the photo with my father nor where the photos were taken. That information was blacked out on the back of the pictures as they had to clear the military standards so that locations and people weren&#8217;t compromised.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I&#8217;d seen these before my father died. I could have asked him.<\/p>\n<p>But on this 11th of November, I remember him and all the other soldiers who fought for our freedom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/poppy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/poppy.png\" alt=\"souviens\" width=\"449\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/poppy.png 449w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/poppy-300x239.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Je me souviens&#8230; I remember This phrase is on the Quebec license plates and I thought it seemed fitting to use it in relation to Remembrance Day as we remember the brave men and women who fought for our freedom and continue to do so today. I remember him every day but especially on 11th &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Je me souviens- 11th November<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Je me souviens- 11th November - 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