Can you imagine being forgotten?
It’s a terrifying concept. The idea that your personality, your face, your accomplishments, your failures- everything that makes you yourself, be forgotten. To be fair, it happens to all of us eventually. But we usually have our name live on- either in our posterity or on a plaque above our corpse. In Suda Bay, that isn’t even the case for some of the fallen. Many of the bodies were unidentified, and there is little to remember them individually other than the uniform they were wearing. Which I suppose speaks to the reality of war. It is more palpable to say “X number of British soldiers” as opposed to listing off the names of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. I know that wasn’t the intent of the memorial- but it doesn’t change the fact.
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