Canadian veterans’ homecoming photographs capture a moment, not everything that follows. With historians Andrew Burtch and Michael Petrou, discover what those pictures leave outside the frame: the relationships, memories and identities shaped long after a uniform comes off.
At a family dinner, an Afghanistan veteran begins crying when someone mentions a fallen comrade. His grandfather, a Second World War veteran, finds him in the hallway. What passes between them reaches across decades of different wars.
And what about the stories a family has never heard? The interviews behind Ripples of War sometimes brought relatives into unfamiliar parts of a loved one’s past. Hear what becomes possible when someone sits down to ask about the life that continued after military service.
Topics: Canadian veterans, Ripples of War, homecoming, family memory, oral history
GUEST: Andrew Burtch and Michael Petrou | http://warmuseum.ca | https://www.amazon.ca/Ripples-War-Canadian-Veteran-Experience/dp/0774873868
Originally aired on2026-11-11
