Remembrance Day is on Monday.
Here’s a story that’s worth reading. And remembering.
I’d like to think that, somewhere, there are grandkids, and great grandkids, weddings, birthdays, graduations, winning goals, and loving winks that trace back like rays of sunshine to that single, sublime act of kindness.
Probably not bar mitzvahs, though.
Regards,
Shodan
Good story. One of my uncles was killed on Dec 8, 1941 flying off a carrier in his Dauntless.
Another uncle was a foot soldier & walked / fought from N Africa to Italy with nothing but some time off from the front line back near the medical people. No R&R for him.
Tough & good people back then that I think were good role models.
YMMV
Another moving Remembrance Day story. Worth your five minute investment.
ETA: He mentions Dieppe. There were 3500 Canadians killed, wounded, or captured. Nine hundred dead in a few hours. Think of losing 9000 US guys, in 1942 mind you, with the smaller population, in one day.
Screwed that up under time pressure.
What I meant to say was given that Canada’s population in 1942 was one-tenth the US’s, 900 men dead in a day for Canada was, in some sense, like the US losing 9000. And, given the population changes since, more like 18000 today. In a few hours.