Sunday 12 November 2017

Lest we forget


                           
     My thirteen-year-old grandson has just written  this. It says it all.

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  1. Excellent. I assume he knows that it wasn't voluntary although one could volunteer.

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  2. It would be great if no one ever had to go to war again.

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  3. What a wonderful poem. I hope it is to be published somewhere. Have you been teaching him to write so beautifully?

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    1. Frances, it had nothing to do with me. It was his homework - apparently the work of 15 minutes. I hope he keeps it up.

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  4. That's a remarkably perceptive poem. I'm not sure that I could have looked at war like that when I was 13.

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    1. Graham, I expect they had been "doing" war at school, hence this as homework. But for a boy who is supposed only to be interested in maths and football, I think it's pretty impressive!

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  5. It's perfect.
    So many of them , not much older than him, didn't get home.

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