Indeed, me too... perhaps because it breaks the hugeness of war down into recognizable pieces where we can know the ones who died and suffer with the ones who were left behind.
Thanks for the Iolaire links. I hadn't heard of it before. My sister-in-law's late Mother was from Stornoway but she never seemed much interested in talking about it.
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Date: 2008-07-01 11:45 pm (UTC)Indeed, me too... perhaps because it breaks the hugeness of war down into recognizable pieces where we can know the ones who died and suffer with the ones who were left behind.
Thanks for the Iolaire links. I hadn't heard of it before. My sister-in-law's late Mother was from Stornoway but she never seemed much interested in talking about it.