The first of the links at the bottom of yesterday's post on 'War Horse' included a quote by Emily Watson, one of the film's (human) stars. She said that the film was particularly timely as the final veteran of the Somme, Harry Patch, died three years ago. "The First World War is leaving living memory".
This made me think of this beautiful song by Radiohead, in Harry Patch's memory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY0E3PaNIi4
The 'lyrics' of the piece are Harry's own words, which you can find on this webpage:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8184000/8184802.stm
The thing Harry said which stuck in my mind most, however, I found again on another website:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2122051/bio
"Irrespective of the uniforms we wore, we were all victims."
For the wisdom and humanity of that thought, Harry, thank you. And RIP.
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