A project remembering WWI wants as many people as possible to create a new kind of war memorial – one made entirely of words. Writers are taking part and students and schoolchildren and nurses and shop workers and writing groups. Everyone…it’s a wonderful idea and I am going to send in my contribution which I have been writing in my head ever since I first heard about it.
On Platform 1 of Paddington Station in London there is statue of an Unknown Soldier reading a letter. This is the letter you are going to write. Here’s how the organisors explain it:
If you could say what you want to say about that war, with all we’ve learned since 1914, with all your own experience of life and death to hand, what would you say? If you were now able to write to the unknown soldier, a man who served and…
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