Thank you for posting this. Remembrance Day (Veteran's Day for those of us south of the border) is one of those holidays that seems so often to get short shrift.
In Tyne Cot, the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war: 11,856 bodies, of which 8,365 are unnamed lie buried, among them 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Conway Young whose headstone reads: "Sacrificed to the fallacy/That war can end war."
Lest we forget...
In Roscoff, Brittany, a charming village that is the jumping-off point for the ferry to Plymouth, there is a lovely cemetery attached to one church, in which cemetery are (if memory serves) two splendid and well-tended graves honouring (if memory serves) two airmen from New Zealand whose plane went down on the coast near Roscoff during (if memory serves) the D-Day invasion, and who were buried there. The day we walked about the many ancient graves in that cemetery, we were very moved to see that someone keeps flowers on those two Commonwealth graves.
A wonderful tribute, Kevin -- thank you. That's a great song. "Did the pipes play The Flow'rs of the Forest?"
Thank you for posting this. Remembrance Day (Veteran's Day for those of us south of the border) is one of those holidays that seems so often to get short shrift.
Excellent timing of the post, too--11:11.
In Tyne Cot, the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world, for any war: 11,856 bodies, of which 8,365 are unnamed lie buried, among them 2nd Lieutenant Arthur Conway Young whose headstone reads: "Sacrificed to the fallacy/That war can end war."
Lest we forget...
In Roscoff, Brittany, a charming village that is the jumping-off point for the ferry to Plymouth, there is a lovely cemetery attached to one church, in which cemetery are (if memory serves) two splendid and well-tended graves honouring (if memory serves) two airmen from New Zealand whose plane went down on the coast near Roscoff during (if memory serves) the D-Day invasion, and who were buried there. The day we walked about the many ancient graves in that cemetery, we were very moved to see that someone keeps flowers on those two Commonwealth graves.