Mary goes to confession today. She was a very devout Roman Catholic throughout her life. Her diary mentions at least seven times going to confession.
Headlines today as usual deal mostly with the war; the following from today's The Philadelphia Inquirer front page:
British Field Marshall Haig is likely referring to what became known at the Battle of Lys in Flanders near Ypres, Belgium, which took place during most of April. It was estimated that there were about 82,000 British casualties and a similar number of German casualties from April 9-30.
Three years before in more or less the same area, Canadian physician, John McCrae, serving with the Canadian Expeditionary force, wrote "In Flanders Fields" the day after performing the burial service for one of his close friends who was a casualty of the battle.
One hundred years later the rolling hill landscape of Flanders is still pock marked from World War I explosions. Exploded and unexploded ordinance is still regularly unearthed in farmers' fields.
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