Hannah's Letter to Uncle Paul
Lance Corporal Paul Muirhead of the 1st Royal Irish Regiment sadly lost his life in Afghanistan on the 6th September 2006.
Paul's death has devasted all his family but his young niece Hannah has found it particularly difficult to understand his death. Paul's mum, Hannah's grandma has requested that a letter written by her to Paul a few months ago be published.
This is the letter, as written by Hannah, aged nine years old Hannahs Letter
(RG) This is a heartbreaking letter from a little girl who finds it hard to come to terms with her beloved Uncles death. All across the UK and America and Canada children as well as adults are missing their loved ones. Lets hope these children don’t have to continue this fight in to the next generation. Thanks to Support Our Soldiers RIP.
© Mack (RG) The thoughts of a Falklands War Veteran.
The Soldier
ReplyDeleteIf I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
Jeez RG... that letter has got me blubbing. Just heard on the news that another guy has died in Afghanistan this avo.
ReplyDeleteBring our people home. Now. The world isnt worth a single one of their lives.
Sammy.