Heritage Minutes: Mary Riter Hamilton | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer | dG1fMzhMRXZKX1pvam8
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00:00For me, the end was just the beginning.
00:04I felt I must come.
00:08If I did not come at once, it would be too late.
00:12And these places that are watered with the best blood of Canada
00:16might only be names and memories.
00:20I see it in the soldiers,
00:24the grief I know so intimately.
00:28And I will not abandon these men to it.
00:32The isolation wears on me.
00:36Slowly, the silence takes over,
00:40as if my heart has given out of air.
00:44I cannot talk. I can only paint.
00:48For more than two years, Mary Ryder Hamilton
00:52painted the battlefields of the First World War,
00:56a valuable record of service and sacrifices at immense personal cost.