{"id":361,"date":"2015-07-21T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T13:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?p=361"},"modified":"2018-12-07T14:15:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:45:49","slug":"setting-the-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Setting the Stage&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0925-Expedition-Europe-930-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"362\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=362\" class=\"wp-image-362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0925-Expedition-Europe-930-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0925-Expedition-Europe-930-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0925-Expedition-Europe-930-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_120209-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"363\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=363\" class=\"wp-image-363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_120209-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_120209-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_120209-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_120229-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"364\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=364\" class=\"wp-image-364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_120229-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_120229-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_120229-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0925-Expedition-Europe-928-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"365\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=365\" class=\"wp-image-365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0925-Expedition-Europe-928-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0925-Expedition-Europe-928-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0925-Expedition-Europe-928-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>After a brief but comfortable night sleep we enjoyed a breakfast buffet and loaded back on our bus to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/normandy.memorial-caen.com\/\">Caen Memorial Museum<\/a>.\u00a0 The Memorial Museum is essentially a walk through of the entirety of the second World War, starting at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles and ending with Japan&#8217;s ultimate surrender.\u00a0 This is NOT a celebration of the Allied victory, instead it is a very real, very powerful, and very brutally accurate telling of the story of the war and the unforgivable loss of millions of lives.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0926-Expedition-Europe-933-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"366\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=366\" class=\"wp-image-366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0926-Expedition-Europe-933-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0926-Expedition-Europe-933-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0926-Expedition-Europe-933-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0928-Expedition-Europe-941-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"367\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=367\" class=\"wp-image-367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0928-Expedition-Europe-941-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0928-Expedition-Europe-941-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0928-Expedition-Europe-941-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0932-Expedition-Europe-917-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"368\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=368\" class=\"wp-image-368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0932-Expedition-Europe-917-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0932-Expedition-Europe-917-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0932-Expedition-Europe-917-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0934-Gerry-Gardner-20150721_093412-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"369\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=369\" class=\"wp-image-369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0934-Gerry-Gardner-20150721_093412-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0934-Gerry-Gardner-20150721_093412-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0934-Gerry-Gardner-20150721_093412-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0935-IMG_0810-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"370\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=370\" class=\"wp-image-370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0935-IMG_0810-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0935-IMG_0810-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0935-IMG_0810-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0940-IMG_0812-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"371\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=371\" class=\"wp-image-371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0940-IMG_0812-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0940-IMG_0812-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0940-IMG_0812-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Spirits were high as we entered the museum.\u00a0 Upon signing in we were each given a cordless &#8220;phone&#8221; which was to act as our personal tour guide.\u00a0 The idea is that as you approach exhibits you enter the number into your phone and you are told about it.\u00a0 I was skeptical at this approach, but the audio tour was absolutely fantastic &#8211; truly one of the best museum tours I have ever participated in.\u00a0 All the Scouts, Venturer Scouts and Scouters were absolutely riveted by the audio tour, and as you can see from the pictures, our jovial mood quickly became a lot more serious.\u00a0 THIS is what we had signed up for.. this was the beginning of our Battlefields experience&#8230; and wow, what a wake up call&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_115638-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"372\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=372\" class=\"wp-image-372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_115638-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_115638-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_115638-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/03-0937-Gerry-Gardner-20150721_093756-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"373\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=373\" class=\"wp-image-373\" 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src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_104510-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"405\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=405\" class=\"wp-image-405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_104510-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_104510-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_104510-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_110914-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"406\" data-link=\"http:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?attachment_id=406\" class=\"wp-image-406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_110914-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_110914-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Gerry-Gardner-20150721_110914-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As excellent as the audio tour was, it truly was a lot to take.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think any of us managed to listen to the full tour.\u00a0 For me personally, I made it as far as the Holocaust exhibit.\u00a0 Towards the end of the exhibit my audio guide told a story about a worker at one of the camps.\u00a0 He was telling a story about these two young kids he had seen at the camp for a few weeks.\u00a0 The oldest was 12 and the youngest was likely around six.\u00a0 He went on to say that he later saw them lined up for the &#8220;showers&#8221;&#8230; he knew what was in store for them, but worse yet he could see by the look on the older youth&#8217;s\u00a0 face that she knew it as well.\u00a0 Despite her fear she comforted her younger brother and they moved ahead in line.\u00a0 He closed by explaining that the reason he is telling this story is so there would be a record somewhere that these two children had lived.\u00a0 That their life happened.\u00a0 I had to put down my phone after that&#8230; just couldn&#8217;t take any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Another moment that sticks with me is that I walked up to a couple of our Venturer Scouts standing in front of a huge mural depicting three youth being hung in France during the occupation.\u00a0 The crimes they had commitment included delivering resistance fliers, helping Jewish people hide from the Nazis, and feeding the hungry&#8230;\u00a0 basically they were Venturer Scouts dangling in gallows for doing exactly what we teach our Scouts to do &#8211; as in stand up for those who need your help.\u00a0 These kids were publicly executed for doing what our kids do on a regular basis &#8211; what we insist they do&#8230;\u00a0 the museum was an intense experience for everyone, but without a doubt, it was the perfect and really the only way to start our Battlefields experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a brief but comfortable night sleep we enjoyed a breakfast buffet and loaded back on our bus to visit the Caen Memorial Museum.\u00a0 The Memorial Museum is essentially a walk through of the entirety of the second World War, starting at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles and ending with Japan&#8217;s ultimate surrender.\u00a0 This is NOT a celebration of the Allied victory, instead it is a very real, very powerful, and very brutally accurate telling of the story of the war and the unforgivable loss of millions of lives.\u00a0 Spirits were high as we entered the museum.\u00a0 Upon signing in we were each given a cordless &#8220;phone&#8221; which was to act as our personal tour guide.\u00a0 The idea is that as you approach exhibits you enter the number into your phone and you are told about it.\u00a0 I was skeptical at this approach, but the audio tour was absolutely fantastic &#8211; truly one of the best museum tours I have ever participated in.\u00a0 All the Scouts, Venturer Scouts and Scouters were absolutely riveted by the audio tour, and as you can see from the pictures, our jovial mood quickly became a lot more serious.\u00a0 THIS is what we had signed up for.. this was the beginning of our Battlefields experience&#8230; and wow, what a wake up call&#8230; As excellent as the audio tour was, it truly was a lot to take.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think any of us managed to listen to the full tour.\u00a0 For me personally, I <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/gfwscouting.ca\/adventure\/?p=361\">Continue Reading 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