Godspeed to Brendan and all our sympathy to his parents.
Nevertheless they are heard in the still houses: who has not heard them?
They have a silence that speaks for them at night and when the clock counts.
They say, We were young. We have died. Remember us.
– Archibald McLeash – ‘The Young Dead Soldiers Do Not Speak’
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I remember that photo.
I’m sorry.