{"id":3022,"date":"2018-01-28T12:56:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T18:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2018-07-06T23:29:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T05:29:15","slug":"3022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?p=3022","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h1 class=\"story-title\">&#8216;Somebody&#8217;s thinking about these boys&#8217;: New memorial in German town to honour doomed RCAF bomber crew<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"story-deck\">Memorial to Lancaster LL687 will mark the spot where bomber fell in 1944, killing 7 Canadian airmen<\/h3>\n<p class=\"small lighttext\"><span class=\"spaced\">By\u00a0Stephen Smith,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/cbc-news-online-news-staff-list-1.1294364\">CBC News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"delimited\">Posted: Jul 09, 2017 6:00 AM ET<\/span>\u00a0Last Updated: Jul 09, 2017 1:27 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3023 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/lancaster-ll687-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"161\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Audrey\u00a0Somers\u00a0has done her best over the last 73 years to put the death of her 23-year-old brother Harold behind her, but it&#8217;s caught up with her yet again.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/vimy-ridge-casualty-lists-montreal-1.4058385\">&#8216;That day was like a scythe&#8217;: Montreal and the casualty lists of Vimy Ridge<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/montreal-s-ww-i-memorials-hidden-in-plain-sight-1.4061081\">Montreal&#8217;s WW I memorials hidden in plain sight<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At 87, she vividly recalls the moment the telegram arrived at her family&#8217;s Hamilton, Ont., home, informing her parents\u00a0that\u00a0the brother she describes as &#8220;loving but\u00a0quiet&#8221; was missing in action over Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was upstairs in my bedroom, and my mother came running up and told me,&#8221;\u00a0Somers\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She kneeled at the side of the bed\u00a0and said the Lord&#8217;s Prayer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next day my father&#8217;s hair turned grey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Summoning that\u00a0memory still brings tears today, as\u00a0Somers\u00a0talks about the memorial to\u00a0be unveiled in Germany later this month near the spot where the wreckage of her brother&#8217;s\u00a0Royal Canadian Air Force\u00a0bomber fell to earth after it was hit\u00a0by anti-aircraft fire in the early hours of July 29, 1944<\/p>\n<p>.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/memorial-germany-lancaster-goose-squadron-1.4195080\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/memorial-germany-lancaster-goose-squadron-1.4195080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Somebody&#8217;s thinking about these boys&#8217;: New memorial in German town to honour doomed RCAF bomber crew Memorial to Lancaster LL687 will mark the spot where bomber fell in 1944, killing 7 Canadian airmen By\u00a0Stephen Smith,\u00a0CBC News\u00a0Posted: Jul 09, 2017 6:00 AM ET\u00a0Last Updated: Jul 09, 2017 1:27 PM ET Audrey\u00a0Somers\u00a0has done her best over the last 73 years to put the death of her 23-year-old brother Harold behind her, but it&#8217;s caught up with her yet again. &#8216;That day was like a scythe&#8217;: Montreal and the casualty lists of Vimy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-408-squadron-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}