Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Thursday, 13 April 2017

National Memorial Arboretum

The visit to the National Memorial Arboretum at the peaceful juncture of the Rivers Trent and Tame was thought-provoking, particularly the memorials that featured symbolic installations such as the Christmas Truce, Shot at Dawn and the Burma Railway; the centre piece - the Armed Forces Memorial - is impressive and worrying, for both the number of names inscribed (16,000 killed since the end of the Second World War) and the space left available to add even more.
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