https://poets.org/poem/spires-oxford

remembrance day, london, 2018, 888,246 ceramic poppies....for the 888,246 commonwealth fatalities in the great war.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W_Va6JtbaE

remembering my grandfather, sgt. thomas manning mitchell, company m, 156th infantry, american expeditionary force in france, 1917-8.

he died in an accident in the summer of 1949, a few months before my birth - as i sit here, i am wearing his company ring....and his name.

best regards,

tom

"it's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
lewis carroll, Alice in Wonderland