Remembering on Remembrance Day

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Just caught a whole bunch of stories for Remembrance (Veterans') Day from DPU. They're great. Here's one:


As I said, my grandfather was in the Home Guard, a volunteer organization organized along military lines. Some groups were a bit gung-ho on the military drills, and one night his troop was scheduled to practice advancing under fire across a neighbouring field. This involved a lot of crawling about in the dark, and on the night, it was pouring rain. “To hell with it”, he thought, and decided not to go. He knew that the field had just been ploughed, and what the rain would do to it.

At dawn, there was a knock on the door. My grandfather, fearing that a military squad had been sent to arrest him for desertion or something, sent my grandmother down to tell them that he was sick. When she opened the door, there were several high-ranking Home Guard officers there, covered head-to-toe with thick mud. And a chaplain.

“We’ve some bad news, missus,” said one of the officers. “Your husband has been lost in the mud during the maneuvers last night. We’ve had the entire company searching the field all night, but we haven’t been able to recover him. We’re very sorry.”


There's lots of other real thing stuff there also. Well worth the visit.

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