Thanks for the thoughtful and respectful coverage in both the printed word and pictorially in the Times Colonist over the past few days. As a vet myself, it would indeed be difficult not to feel honoured and grateful in the midst of so great a company. Why then my concern?
I understand the priority of marking the centenary, that our thinking was primarily in regard to 1914-18, and yet within that hundred years, our world experienced events even more appalling and primarily affecting civilian populations, almost beyond our reckoning.
It seems to me that it is deeply disquieting that we pass by with never a mention. Were not these the very people who supported and provided for us veterans the weapons of war, often to their harm, as we struggled to preserve and protect them?
In the years to come, could we try to use the time of remembering to understand that none are exempt or excluded from the consequences of war? The wounds might be different but just as profound.
Marcia Williams
Victoria
