A small and belated September update for 2024, where I am still, after many years' membership, on 365 Project, also now posting elsewhere but wanting...
I have just wrapped the book up ready to give my husband for Christmas. I know he will love it and I am looking forward so much to reading it after him too.
Your memories will be very vivid today Hazel. Even though the rememberance is mostly for the fallen in the war I consider my dad worthy of this recognition too as you probably do too for your dad. Even though they returned alive I consider my dad's life vastly changed for the worse & think his death at 57 one of the reasons for his early death. The luck of the draw in war but they all went through the same.
My dad wrote his daily diary in exercise books he managed to acquire at the canteen in the Italian PoW camp so the account is very immediate memories. It has taken 70 years of effort to get them published on Amazon in book and kindle form, thanks to a fellow member of a photography group in Winchester U3A. My father is not here to see them but somehow I feel he had an inkling that I might achieve this!
I agree with all you say Pat and yes, that was really my point today that the horrors and deprivations of war affected those who returned too. In his interview with the Imperial War Museum when he was 61 my dad said that his experience had affected him mentally but that he felt he had finally got over it. Perhaps writing it all down helped. He did have an operation for an ulcer and all his life had to be careful what, and how much, he ate, felt ill otherwise. Your dad died young, mine in contrast lived to be 79. Your dad's role in the war must have been nervewracking.
Most thought provoking. I have enjoyed seeing how different people have recorded the day here. Some wonderful tributes. Thoughts for anyone who suffered in whatever way.
November 13th, 2017
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So good to know and thank you for telling me.
The shadows were only really visible on loading up the shot - I like them too.
My dad wrote his daily diary in exercise books he managed to acquire at the canteen in the Italian PoW camp so the account is very immediate memories. It has taken 70 years of effort to get them published on Amazon in book and kindle form, thanks to a fellow member of a photography group in Winchester U3A. My father is not here to see them but somehow I feel he had an inkling that I might achieve this!
Ann, I hope you will find them interesting and worthwhile.
I agree with all you say Pat and yes, that was really my point today that the horrors and deprivations of war affected those who returned too. In his interview with the Imperial War Museum when he was 61 my dad said that his experience had affected him mentally but that he felt he had finally got over it. Perhaps writing it all down helped. He did have an operation for an ulcer and all his life had to be careful what, and how much, he ate, felt ill otherwise. Your dad died young, mine in contrast lived to be 79. Your dad's role in the war must have been nervewracking.
Phil, thank you. I saw this candle on a visit to a local church and decided to save my photo for the occasion.
Thank you all for your visits, comments and favs - nice to see this on PP.
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