Maybe it’s Downton Abbey or the incredible book I’m reading, The Beauty and the Sorrow, but news that the last known WW I has passed caught my eye. Florence Green was 110.
From England’s book, quoting Paolo Monelli, an Italian infantry man:
“It is not the risk of dying … not the red firework display of a bursting shell that blinds us as it comes whizzing down…, but the feeling of being a puppet in the hands of an unknown puppeteer — and that feeling sometimes chills the heart as if death itself had taken hold of it.”
A French picture from the endless battle of Verdun
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