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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1997-11-05, Page 11.;1 mall town war hero ,hes at 8S" says the bearlltne•s of the tae's! .newspapers.• •t great man has been hist." the mayor mays arthr funeral. It is fitting .that he should be honored like this...at•s hero to bong time. and it is touching • that people remember.. Rut the picture they publish is one of a.s',ung Man barely' off the ship (ram.l°ratice, freshly hunt; medals . (Perorating a crisp utriform, bouts polished so brightly that they r•eflert that sunsliii?r•u( the . • Nova Scotia morning. • '<nd that little grid he holds in his arms, who, Was born during his long ahsence,•is my mother. It is the pirt,ttre •• .'. • everyone 'wants to ore: the strong (;ralittain. leader of so many soldiers and father to this child. her eyes tviele with excitement. It - demaneIS attention', it elivits tears and , whispers: "Imagine.:_camtng home to .t,e',our daughter -for the vers first time. • These sante awestruck .people keep a distant•« from that tnatt,and his little girl 1 rr.pectfut • distance. bridged irks pour a year with red poppies and a mornettt uf..itrnre, 1 cant help but think that that Ivan isn't Grandpa: the - littli• girl IN hardly old. enough to akar house. Jet alone to know that she herself will raise• eldildren one day. Rut what strike, me most. .' ahitut,the picture' is the 4mtle on Ins grandfather's fart, It is a rare, treat:. and a. far as 1 know; neyer,•apttired on film again. (lis.olrmritty was an unspoken sow. ~ever ifid . hr show mare than a mild amusement at the. goint,'ta-un arisnntl himt knew he was.prot d: I knew he loved us. but his love was mixed with a fieri 'ness he seemed afraid to mrknowledge. as though its iattieett were somewhere deer anti Painful insole of him: Thr time hese now risme for me to set aside m . ower aching grief. f. to take on .t (liffetilt task: Since ! was a ehibl f have known the Attie to he full of"f;rand(,a's stuff." it that soung age thought perhaps this meant funny hats and mnnarlrs alttrth ei ruftly •nits the, wore in the Somrthinit in the- front breast (nick(•( t4raws me to it • 4 foldeit anti refolded piece of (ta (u'r smeared with flirt. harelr legible, 4t' hand. trembles as 1 make out the words 0(a paean• •scribbled in an awkward: youthful version.o( my grandfather's handwriting.. The hero is nitrite trim bore the. weight tr% injured friends, Stir those receiving'nodale for there vtrt/e. The hero is not he who trerlks Pork tet his Ince •• ond,htinte • Ire is the boy next. «Laor !rho gate his fibro 19th erntury. Rut now 1 wonder if'I can Stand -• the onslaught of memories that.are sore to . Opening the paper fully. ( see a flash of colour wa..ht,vr r me as I sort through books. chdhing ' fail from it, f'arnstakingly tressed between two (oeee4 of w t ed paper is the last .it what Inv grandfather knew as lo•auts. turesr•r (re ren to time. i :mall pointy. faded like the (nitforrn it . which it was pla,h•d. hail tra5.IIi l with him in that pocket. '!'lits Man who nes er t41kre1 about the war. who had es urs right 'tis want to forget.' held 'that constant and patn(itl remeniter chose 'to hi4hear•t . Mont hii tater. on R,•menhran,•e Ibis, my- family tdurned with me I.iI .strlprs sort badges. .This gathers at Grandpa rat+h of tit was what the world meant by ''war hero". this carrying a 'houiturt u? flowers. .except for me. uniform {,hot tran.f.rmed mj grandfather from 1 carry two. ts, l.lr[tti them.rgrefully vis ilian.to soldier, with all the trimmings fh;tt, whisper• "For you, Grandpa... anel';fir the boy, carne with lirasery Anil sacrifice: It meant dulyy . next door: . and loyalty - those things that et'e r:o unquestionable to hirci. -1LEXANDRA I101.13ROOK Guelph. Ontario . and trinkets that were all part of who fns grandfather was The attic is musty and dark. a world of the past, untouched but not. forgotten. The first cardboard box I c1131.« t. nit too difficult to gat flirtingly .otne summer shirts and a few • rough draft, •,(' ltt. nos els These e'nm(,e,rtahle things are.ha'rpls contrasted hs, the dark .nit at the bottom. 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