Remember

[amphigoury]

I would like on this week of weeks, on this day of days when men and women gather, and their children too, at the cenotaphs and in the gymnasiums, in the classrooms and the office towers, and watch in silence as the stiff old soldiers are wheeled past-and the young ones too, marching by, their pipes and drums filled with the seriousness of purpose

Comments

[pen_rabbit]

Thank you for posting this.

Lest we forget.

[reni_m]

THIS.

[leviathans_moon]

YES!

I suppose it is a good thing that we don't have the memories, that we didn't have to live through that, but it does make you question what do you actually stand up for and be silent for two minutes on that specific day? and I think a lot of people only go through the motions, without properly thinking about it.

I always think of Wilfred Owen who died a week before the truce. I think of those who died because either side wanted to get rid of the last few shells and bullets that they had left. but I also think about those who showed compassion and sympathy in war, who gave the other side the opportunity to safe their wounded and recover their dead from no-man's-land. and of those from the Christmas truce.

[altocello]

Decided that I wanted to give DS some perspective on WHY we honor this day. Here in the US, it's more about respect for our living veterans, and Memorial Day at the end of May is saved for those who died. I don't really know why, you'd think it would be the other way around.

Anyway, I wanted him to have a feel for the way that most of the rest of the world approaches this day, and for why it's such a solemn occasion. So I sat down with him at about 10:50 am, clicked on the audio, scrolled to the top of the page, and we read along silently as Mr McLean spoke it. At just about 10:58 we got to the part about Pvt Price.

So, thank you. We remembered him, Pvt George Lawrence Price, who almost came home, like so many others.