Very somber. I’m glad to see this, thanks for posting it. My grandfather was “over there” and was injured. He felt the physical effects for the rest of his life — and let us grandkids feel the shrapnel still in his arm. We plant poppies a lot of years in their memories. That variety has main petals with a mark in the center that often turn out looking like a cross.
My Great Uncle was wounded in WWI and was given a full pension.
This was a poor area at the time and a young man with a pension was considered very desirable by the girls. He married a girl whom my Daddy described as really beautiful but not that smart.