Our local postbox topper for Armistice Day.
I don't know of anyone in my family who died in either of the great wars. My grandfather took a bullet that went straight through his chest and he survived, but other than that I don't recall anyone speaking of a lost family member. My grandfather would have been in the trenches and having read about them in Birdsong I struggle to see how anyone came out alive.
Several of my great-uncles served in the forces in the second world war - Uncle Horace was an engineer on the planes that would become the DamBusters - and my mum was in the WAAF and spent time in Egypt.
On my little day out last week I saw this lovely bench in Coity.
7 comments:
Making the remembrance personal is a great idea. My family was heavily hit in both world wars, losses and disablement. My dad survived the Somme, in the trenches. I read Birdsong in his honor. If he had to endure it as a twenty something, least I could do was read about it.
Reading was hard enough.
We will remember them.
That is indeed a beautiful bench.
I like the post box topper. My grandfather lost a brother in WW1 and my other grandfather a cousin. So I'm always pleased to see these memorials. There is a wonderful one at Upper Denby near us, which I posted about.
What a pretty bench that is.
I like the idea of individual poppies remembering those who died. The local school had a small memorial garden of poppies with names of family members who had died.
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