A thing I reflect on each Veterans’ Day is the Massachusetts Peace Statue, which is the town of Orange’s WWI monument.
It shows a returned U.S. solider talking to a schoolboy.
Wikipedia photo:
It shows a returned U.S. solider talking to a schoolboy.
Wikipedia photo:
It’s entitled “It Shall Not Be Again,” and it was dedicated in 1934. It honors the 13 natives of Orange who died in the war.
The image, of course, is the soldier tells the schoolboy about the war, and it doesn’t happen again.
But the boys of that age would be drafted in the Second World War.
But the boys of that age would be drafted in the Second World War.
Sorry, 11 from Orange.
It is of a piece with the contrast of the poem most often quoted today, McCrae’s “In Flanders Field” with the one I RT’d this morning, Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est.” poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/du…
And Owen died at 25 in France, a week before the Armistice
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