Remembrance Day (Poppy Day) in November will be different this year.
The last members of the generation that fought WWI are passing and with them the
voices
directly from that terrible time, leaving as witness the photographic
record from every country
and nation involved.
In our office, we find that what survived our school English lessons to become lifelong memories are
the war poems of Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John MacRae and their peers.
And later, looking back with the hindsight of decades,
the words of
Philip Larkin:
“Never such innocence/Never before or since…”
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