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May 31, 2005
Memorial Day on the Savannah~The dead have their day too
Here's my column in the Pulse. I spent Memorial Day weekend in Augusta, Georgia, with family and friends. While there we walked the Savannah River. There I remembered veterans of war.
The river is inky below an overcast sky, a reminder of wars and warriors. The history of military events flows slowly away to the sea, worshiped by mermen darting around fallen armies like so much seaweed and sunken debris. The deep sea seems restful enough. But wars also beg for rocky monuments that root like gravestones in terra firma.
I remember my father-in-law although I never met him. He died when my wife was just a 9-year-old girl, yet even today she tells stories of his fighting in France, stories retold as a memory device of survival to be sure, recalling that in fact that he survived World War Two and came home. But he was wounded there like so many others, bled on foreign soil that has absorbed so much blood.
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Posted by wjbailes at May 31, 2005 07:14 AM
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