Remembrance

[essayel]

This morning I observed the silence on the threshold of a supermarket, trying to quietly restrain my mother who hadn't quite twigged what was going on. When she did she stood stock still, though and lost herself in her memories.

Comments

[ceitfianna]

The first time I was really struck by the enormity of the wars was in high school when I went to Normandy and Pointe d'Oc with the scars of the land and the beaches. I feel like we're forgetting the US and it scares me.

[jessie_lansdel]

All that bright youth and promise lost forever. We shall remember them.

[anteros_lmc]

So many young men lost then, lost before and still being lost now. It's unbearable really.

[erised1810]

wow...

[surexit]

There's no room left on the war memorial.

Yeah.