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Members of my family fought in both WWI and WWII. The only real information I have is that my grandfather on my mother's side was a tail gunner whose plane was shot down over Holland. He hid amongst farmland (most notably a time in a haystack) before being captured. He ended up living a meagre existence as a prisoner of war for some months before the armistice.
I will be listening to some of the CBC service today, and at 11 a.m., I will recognize two minutes of silence.
....lest I forget......
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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