4th August 1914

4th August 1914...

At the going down of the sun

and in the morning

we will remember them.

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One of the many letters sent to the unknown soldier at Paddington Station London.

"I remember the day England entered the war. I remember the look on your face, so innocent yet troubled by news. As I held your hand you looked at me desperately and I felt your undeniable pain. Looking back on those years, those memories written on crumpled paper, and smudged with tears of pain and suffering, I contemplate on how you must have felt during those endless nightmares. Such injustice, such cruelty inflicted on the young. So much bloodshed, now collected in a field of blood-red poppies. I honour your courage, and that's why I keep a poppy on my writing desk,

so that every time I look at it I remember you, and the hardships you had gone through.

I will say only this, you will never be forgotten my dear friend,

your life is written in the pages of the book,

for if no one will know your name,

I will cherish and carve it on the cold stone slab of my heart."

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