How overlooked veterans make history in their own words
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This is a CBC podcast. Welcome to Ideas. I'm Nala Ayed. As a former journalist, now historian, Michael Petru has always traded in facts. But he opened a lecture at the Canadian War Museum about the impacts of war by quoting a fictional war veteran, thinking about friends who fought alongside him during the Spanish Civil War.
You know what? Since the war ended, not a single day has gone by when I haven't thought of them. They were all so young. They all died, all of them dead. None of them tasted the good things in life.
None of them knew the wonder of having a child, and have their child at three or four years of age. climbing into his bed between him and his wife on a Sunday morning in a room full of sunshine. Nobody remembers them. Nobody even remembers why they died, why they didn't have a wife and children, and a sunny room. Nobody remembers, least of all, those they fought for.
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