Teresa, you might want to do a search-and-replace. Victor's surname is Gonzalez; Alberto's is Gonzales.
Even the Globe and Mail keeps getting the various spellings mixed up. In Toronto, the commonest spelling is Goncalves (and would have a cedille instead of a 'c', if I weren't typing in ASCII).
I hope Victor forgives me for mentioning him in the same sentence as that shit.
Re: #10, Lizzy L
I went to school in Toronto. WWI was taught as the very definition of a rotating clusterfuck, Versailles treaty included. Special attention was paid to the use of Canadian, Newfoundlander, Australian and New Zealander troops as cannon-fodder. The descriptions and depictions of trench life, combat, and casualties were very explicit.
I'm just old enough to remember there being rather a lot of very traumatized old people around. I remember being warned not to ever be alone in a room with the shell-shocked inpatients at the hospital where my GP was.
The largest Canadian cemetary is in Flanders. Thanks to regional regiments, many towns, some pretty large, lost the vast majority of their adult male populations in a single day. We aren't going to forget this one in a hurry.
It most definitely _is_ taught that way in Canada. I would bet that it is in Australia and New Zealand, also.
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