Letter — My family had answers
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 04/10/2024 (336 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Thanks for your editorial in Thursday’s Sun (“Brandon soldier reminds us of war’s real-world cost”), especially how you summed it up in the final paragraphs, as your comments are of particular significance for me.
In 1917, my uncle was left for dead on a battlefield in France. When a group of soldiers was sent to pick up the bodies for burial, one of his friends noticed a slight movement. He was sent to hospital in London with severe head injuries. During the six months there with surgery, he regained his ability to speak, and was able to return home to help his father on the farm, in spite of the fact he suffered from epileptic seizures, which made him unable to have a full-time job.
I arrived on the scene nearly 20 years later, and remember him as active in the Canadian Legion, St. John Ambulance, coming out to the family farm on his motorcycle to look after his hive of bees. As my sister and I were the only kids in the family, he was a “dream uncle” to have at Christmas and birthdays!
As you pointed out so well, we are all affected by wars in so many different ways. It helps me understand how fortunate my family has been in the past 100 years, to have had answers, while the Cunningham family had only unanswered questions.
DOUG GROSSART
Brandon