How technology — and a global pandemic — are transforming Remembrance Day - News Summed Up

How technology — and a global pandemic — are transforming Remembrance Day


(Contributed)It's just one part of a digital wave that promises to transform the act of remembrance. "As human beings, we relate to the stories of other human beings," said Peter Francis, an executive at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Maidenhead, U.K., west of London. WATCH: Peter Francis on using technology to tell war storiesTechnology can humanize the sacrifice of the war dead 1:26 Peter Francis of the the Commonwealth War Graves Commission talks about a younger generation using online technology as a tool for remembrance. Three of the people writing tributes this year for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's virtual wall found their own ways of connecting with the stories of Canada's war dead. "When I put things up on the wall, it's personal," she said from her home in Bletchley, U.K. "It's my remembrance.


Source: CBC News November 11, 2020 09:00 UTC



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