Monthly Archives: January 2014

Remembering WWI in a Small Town in Scotland

German and British soldiers playing football during a truce on Christmas Day 1914

I moved to Oban, on the west coast of Scotland, in late October. A few weeks later it was November, and the town was blanketed in red poppies. I soon learned that’s the symbol for war remembrance here. Poppies bloomed in the fields of battle, and red, of course, symbolizes blood. Maybe it was just…