Lest we Forget, by Babs Nicol
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Twice in twenty years families across this nation were rent asunder by a war with Germany. Fathers, who had fought in World War One watched their sons go to another War in Europe giving lie to the myth they had fought in a War to end all Wars.
So many sons did not return.
War between nations is a most terrible thing, for most of us it beggars the imagination as to what these men endured.
The Head of Science at my school was a very hard man indeed. He was very hard with us youngsters. He intended to make men of us, men of whom he would be proud.
After six years at that school, on our last day, we few gathered around his desk, sitting on bar stools around his elevated desk. "Is there anything you would care to ask me before you inadequates launch yourself into the world?' He had a booming voice.
'Sir, I've heard you entered Belsen after the War.'
Although then sixty years old he was a big muscular man, a military man. Yet he put his face in his hands and cried before us. 'It would have to be you who would ask that.' It was me who posed the question.
Our Head of Science, an NCO, was behind his Officer when they liberated Belson. I cannot imagine that experience for him. But in the end it broke him.
His last words to us school boys were, 'Churchill said, Jaw-Jaw is better than war-war. Let that be your abiding motto.'
If I have a motto in life, that is it.