Locked in my memory is a vacation that is not remembered for sunny weather or sandy beaches. My vacation was a pilgrimage to the sites where Canadian soldiers fought in the Great War. The weather was bitterly cold and damp. It wasn’t fun. But this vacation may be my most memorable. I visited Normandy and Belgium to stand on the very ground bitterly contested in a war that started one hundred years ago, this past summer.
A vacation visiting monuments and cemeteries is bliss compared to the four hard years some soldiers and civilians experienced. I had hoped that by visiting the sites, I would gain understanding of “why war”. I learned only there is no answer to that question. There is no sense to be made of those battles and sacrifices. The only thing that does make sense is to remember those who fought and suffered.
As we approach Remembrance Day, many stories have surfaced in film, television and print. The stories that fascinate me are not the strategic analysis of battle but rather the tales told on the back of yellowed post cards or letters worn thin by handling. The stories of ordinary men and their families are key to remembering their sacrifices. In the heat of battle or under the pressures of survival, people took time to write letters. We are richer for those letters and the sacrifice of time they represent.
The day to day details of our times may seems trite and unimportant. Certainly we spare little time for letter writing. But consider how important those details might be to someone a hundred years from now. Your letters could also be a treasured legacy.
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them. Robert Laurence Binyon
(The poem was written in mid September 1914, a few weeks after the outbreak of the First World War)