Wednesday, October 15, 2014

An Amazing Memorial

I found this quite astonishing: a family in France has kept the bedroom of their son who was killed in WW1 exactly how it was since he died:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11162640/First-World-War-memorial-bedroom-to-fallen-French-soldier.html

This is just so much more personal than lists of names carved into stone memorials across Europe.

In Birdsong one of the most poignant sections s when one of the soldiers turns up again as a shell-shocked eteran in a care home, and to me this seems similar: the impact of the eventys ogf 1914-1918 do not end.

 

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