TRUCE?
A simple enough icon:
Carved hands gripped in strife’s peace,
Sleeves confirming an equality,
An understanding, a tension’s release…
A simple enough meaning:
Carved hands shake on a mere truce,
Grasp knowing the reality,
When the next shells will cut death loose…
Pete Ray
October 2016
This memorial at the National Arboretum was special, for I believe that my grandfather was posted to the region in December 1914, with the Royal Warwickshires. I have no idea whether he witnessed any of the handshakes, or the alleged football match…
The badge on the memorial’s British sleeve is a Royal Warwickshire emblem.
I never met either of my grandfathers…
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