Thanks Kev

Kev,

I think your images have just added NMA Alrewas to my “must visit” list. Unfortunately its a little too far for me to “pop over”, but if I’m ever in the area I’ll make an effort to get there.

The whole place looks so peaceful in that wonderful evening sunlight, such a contrast to the last moments endured by so many of those whose loss is commemorated there…

And your mention of the mother and child nearly reduced me to tears – for so many, like me, who visit memorials such as this the names remain just so many unknown names on a wall, but for a few visitors those ‘names’ were so much more than a name, they were very real fathers, sons, husbands and brothers ( or,mothers, daughters, wives and sisters). Makes me feel like I’ve little entitlement to be there, encroaching on such a private moment, if I ever have similar encounters.

Always reminds me that there’s a world of difference between the somewhat impersonal collective act of rememberance many of us make every November, and the intensely personal acts of rememberance that so many servicemens’ families have to face every day of their lives.

Paul F