Ten Years Ago Today, item 10

• December 9, 2016 21:09:14 Sue Bryant

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  Read “Peter Jackson” by Frankau; the “First Hundred

  thousand” by Ian Hay and  you will have a better idea

  of things as they were than you could ever have by

  reading official histories and papers of the time, and

  in Peter Jackson especially you will learn more of

  what War means to ordinary every day folk like us

  than you would if I were to write from now til

  Xmas.   

                  Let us hope and pray that by the time you

  are grown-up the world will be in a saner mood

  and that all possibility of a recurrence of those years

  will be removed for ever.

                  Today we see the nations working towards that

  end. At no time in the history of the world has

  there been such an unanimous striving after peace

  as we can witness today. Ten years has healed

  many wounds. A few sores are still festering

  in Europe, but with a new generation presently to

  take charge of the affairs of nation, may these

  sores be completely healed and all nations live-in

  unity and peace for all time.

                  Then and only then can we look back to the

  war years and recalling all the terror of those days

  say that at last the sacrifice has not been in

  vain.

                  You know of course that I was proud to hold

  the King’s Commission in the War. I had been

  through from a humble gunner to bombardier corporal,

  Sergeant and most humble of all ranks 2^nd Lieutenant.

   

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