Lest we forget

[Terry Searl]

As a young fella' in Victoria, B.C. I had a job digging graves and I dug more than just a few at the DVA cemetery, in Esquimalt,
Most of the graves I dug were for veterans who were so badly wounded, burned or gassed that they were never able to go home and sadly they had mostly laid in hospital for many many years,
At their internment at the DVA cemetery there often was no one there except the cemetery maintenance staff, me, the driver of the hearse and the military Padre .......... these fella's were truly forgotten and it always made me tear up when the Padre, blessed them and laid a poppy on the casket before we lowered it into the ground.........Not just Lest we forget ....but please remember, not just today, but every day.... War really is a most horrible invention of mankind