What a moving account of this family’s terrible sacrifice and how they tried to cope with it. Also a loss of one of its native sons for the Town as well as bringing honor to his name. And this situation has been and will be perpetuated for generations. My family, as a small example, still grieves over our own servicemen lost in WWII. All the more important for those among the living who are able to stop whatever we’re doing; get ourselves over to the Memorial Day exercises; decorate the cemeteries; and reflect on those who gave their lives to vouchsafe the community’s future. The Town’s history is the nation’s history in microscopic form. Get out of our closed-loop, virtual, partisan, media-saturated, AI worlds and appreciate the continuum of a unique community in real time and space.
Well stated Patricia. I gladly drive 110 miles to New Ipswich to 'celebrate' Memorial day a wk early. Who are you if you can't remember? Memories connect us and are part of our identity.
What a moving account of this family’s terrible sacrifice and how they tried to cope with it. Also a loss of one of its native sons for the Town as well as bringing honor to his name. And this situation has been and will be perpetuated for generations. My family, as a small example, still grieves over our own servicemen lost in WWII. All the more important for those among the living who are able to stop whatever we’re doing; get ourselves over to the Memorial Day exercises; decorate the cemeteries; and reflect on those who gave their lives to vouchsafe the community’s future. The Town’s history is the nation’s history in microscopic form. Get out of our closed-loop, virtual, partisan, media-saturated, AI worlds and appreciate the continuum of a unique community in real time and space.
*portemonnaie* had to look that one up. It's a fancy word for wallet. I guess this is a nice way of saying he got shot in the butt.
Well stated Patricia. I gladly drive 110 miles to New Ipswich to 'celebrate' Memorial day a wk early. Who are you if you can't remember? Memories connect us and are part of our identity.