REMEMBRANCE DAY - November 11
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And the carnage continues! Young men - cannon-fodder - still dying far from home for the same tired old reasons.
I was named for my uncle who died in the trenches in France during 'the Great War' - WW-I. He was only 22.
This plaque was sent to the British families of the fallen and was known as the "Dead Man's Penny" - and this one was left to me. I try to think about the young man I was named for every Remembrance day.
I posted uncle Tom's story and picture in here a year ago in my previous Journal ("tomcan")...
http://tomcan.livejournal.com/45474.html
And the carnage continues! Young men - cannon-fodder - still dying far from home for the same tired old reasons.
I was named for my uncle who died in the trenches in France during 'the Great War' - WW-I. He was only 22.
This plaque was sent to the British families of the fallen and was known as the "Dead Man's Penny" - and this one was left to me. I try to think about the young man I was named for every Remembrance day.
I posted uncle Tom's story and picture in here a year ago in my previous Journal ("tomcan")...
http://tomcan.livejournal.com/45474.html