Remembrance
9 November 2011
Longrun Meadow, Taunton
My own words never seem sufficient to describe the significance of Remembrance Day. I therefore offer a quote from Vassily Grossman’s epic novel Life and Fate. Grossman knew war at first hand. He witnessed the defence of Stalingrad, the horrors of the Holocaust and the fall of Berlin.
“Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer.”
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