[Bonemaker]

Knowing that hundreds of thousands would NOT meet again is beyond grief. But it was a hope at the time that many a man carried to his grave.

[lowbuck]

As a child of the 50’s I loved listing to this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1rgBGLRuK4

Little did I realize that only a few years removed men and women like my parents dreamed of surviving WWII and coming home to lead a normal life.

And today we ‘shelter in place’ over a flu. Something got lost along the way regarding fortitude.

[Fiji Hill]

Knowing that hundreds of thousands would NOT meet again is beyond grief. But it was a hope at the time that many a man carried to his grave.

Just as hundreds of thousands of mothers would never again reunite with their sons.

Just a Mother's Prayer at Twilight--Vera Lynn (1939)