- Contributed by听
- StokeCSVActionDesk
- Article ID:听
- A6014053
- Contributed on:听
- 04 October 2005
This story was submitted to the People's War website by the Stoke CSV Action Desk on behalf of John Pound and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.
To a boy born in 1922, the First World War was long, long ago and the time between that and the Second, half a life time. Yet between 1919 and 1939 waas only twenty years. A young pregnant woman could lose her husband just before the first war ended and see her son killed at the age of twenty in the Second War. Had this been foreknown, what a black curse to live under!
Between 1945 and now (2005) is sixty years, sixty years of peace in our land. There are more than two generations who have never met war in that time. A boy born in 1930, now a Grandfather of 75, has never had to fight in a war. A fortunate man!
How can such a person feel as a veteran feels now at each armistice day?
This haunting poem, "The old Soldier's Lament" may make it clearer.
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