My uncle, Ernest Valentine Venner, Lieutenant: The Rifle Brigade, has a grave that is marked, but many
who served and died do not, and these lines from 2014...the 100th anniversary of the start of WW1...are intended to mark and maintain their memory.
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Thanks for the comments. The gratitude for their sacrifice
can never be over-emphasised. Every time I witness the
tendency to moan and groan - ironically more prevalent
now when folk enjoy a life far beyond the reality of that
which these here remembered knew - I take a moment to
think of them and what they were never to have and to hold.
We are indeed a fortunate generation, MC.
<Deleted User> (18118)
Thu 9th Nov 2017 20:12
Very moving.
Hannah
MC, thank for this and may God bless each and every one of them. Keith
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Philipos
Mon 30th Sep 2019 21:23
Quite a moving piece this and am so glad you remembered the roles of all those poor animals as well (camels, canaries, carrier pigeons) who also didn't have a clue as to what on earth was happening. So gripping of the imagination these tours, as I remember one from years back organised by my old regimental association of the Irish Guards. ?