🗣 'And so to my great Uncle Alonza, to those who survived and those who did not, thank you. Lest we forget. I promise you we never will.'
I presumed, having lived through two World Wars, she would agree with me. Granny was a quiet soul who never had a bad word to say about anyone or anything. She lived just down the road from us and so I visited her several times a week. In her eyes I could do no wrong.
How he came to be given so grand a name in what was largely a rural farming community I will never know but then I suspect having named so many children before him it was meant to be a name to remember. That it took the arrogance of opinionated youth for me to hear it for the first time shames me still and so I share it with you today. Alonza Strickland.Granny had never forgotten him and so neither do I.
But then the very fact I can write this today in a column which can be about anything I choose proves it was. The mere fact I can express an opinion at all is because of people like him who fought.. and died.. to protect my right to do so.Of course down the years war became not just a historical event but also a part of the present, from the Falklands War to combat twice in the Gulf and of course Afghanistan.
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