In Memoriam

[woolybanana]

Let us please remember those brave soldiers fighting their way ashore in the D day landings on 6th June 1944.

RIP guys. We will not forget your sacrifice.

[Gardengirl]

Thank you for this reminder, Wooly, we’re all so concerned about what’s going on with C-19 that it could slip our minds.

RIP

[mint]

GG, as you know, I am an admirer of Edward Thomas' poems; so here is his poem In Memoriam

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood

This Eastertide call into mind the men,

Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should

Have gathered them and will do never again.

Although Thomas wrote this in the Easter of 1915, the echoes of the poem endure and could equally apply to the D Day landings.

[woolybanana]

Lovely poem, Nimt. Thank you for posting it.

[PaulT]

Difficult to imagine what was going on in their minds coming ashore, assuming they made it that far, with soldiers being blown to pieces or screaming in agony all around them.