#war memorial
A “Tchorek plaque” on Przyczółkowa Street
The Germans executed a group of 67 Jews here in May 1944….
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Vilnius, Lithuania
Priory Road Castle Acre Norfolk.. by Adam Swaine
Via Flickr:
St. James the Great Church.. Castle Acre takes its name from the walled castle built in the 12th-century by the Normans. A rural village in north west Norfolk, it lies four miles north of Swaffham and to the west of the A1065 at the point where the river Nar is crossed by an ancient route known as the Peddars Way. There is much to see in Castle Acre including the castle ruins and the Cluniac Priory.
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” - Cynthia Ozick
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November mo(u)rning
We share a common guilt
the fate of the unscathed,
a hard-won bed of roses
exchanged for strife and raid.
Our soil is drenched in blood
some old, some new, some foreign,
We walk this earth untroubled
oblivious to the torrent.
At times we toss and turn,
and pass a silent sentence,
We read of bravery and war crimes,
of mourning wives and mothers.
And then: “it is inhumane”
yet - is war not human, too?
A human error, granted,
in steel and cobalt blue.
// A. Divinatrice
