Remembrance Sunday always stirs deep emotions in me. I am sure that it does the same for most of you as well.
For the last three years and ever since I first came across it on MyT, part of my remembrance of the day has been reading the Nokamis blog which he first published on 3rd November 2007.
On checking MyT, I see that he is back and last posted on 3rd November 2010. Good and I hope that he will not mind if I repeat myself again this year and post yet another link to said blog which says it all , in my opinion.
‘It’s cold here, colder than on the tube coming up, colder than the short walk from the station. At least, it seems so. A capricious wind is whipping the downed leaves in golden whirlwinds round my feet. I’m feeling the cold particularly badly because I’m not wearing a coat. My funereal black mohair overcoat is gracing a hook in Florida, and I’m not sporting my natty bright red goose-down lined parka, just didn’t seem right.’
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/nokamis/nokamis/3993861/One_of_our_memories_is_missing/#disqus_thread
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Thanks for this reminder,JM, a really outstanding piece. I reproduce the comment I left on the original.
We should all remember that it was the friends, relations and comrades of these old people that we are remembering today. I was in pub in Littleport on this day a few years ago standing next to an old chap. He was wearing his medals and I was wearing my pale imitations so we got chatting. Turned out he was the navigator on the lead pathfinder of the first 1,000 bomber raid. ordinary looking old chap, you’d never give him a second look if you passed him in the street. We remember and are grateful.
I tried to contact Nokamis about this post. I took the liberty of copying it for my mother who was ’22, and a cracker! with flaxen hair’ (although I somehow can’t imagine her in a tin hat!) and has now become one of the ‘invisible’. She thought it was one of the most wonderful things that she had ever read.
Very moving indeed, beautifully composed, it speaks loud and clear. This should read by everyone, and I truly mean everyone.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention JM.
Thanks JM – I recall my father, a very modest man, who kept his war memories to himself. The piece makes me long to have known my father better. It is a wonderfully moving piece of writing. I will make sure I print it out today.
My thanks, John.
Nothing more to add. It just says it all.