Poignant words to remember the fallen

SIR,

I was in Dublin recently where I visited the National Museum of Ireland and I had a wonderful tour of Collins Barracks. There was an exhibition on the ‘Fallen Heroes of World War One’. I was thinking of the 700 Kerry men who lost their lives on the battlefields of the great war.

I came upon this piece in the exhibition which really described the horror of it all:

I wanted to travel,

They fought in poor conditions to see the world,

Facing the horrors of industrial warfare,

My friends were going so I joined,

In the battlefields of Mons and Gallipoli,

We wanted to have an adventure,

Thousands of them died, A story to tell our grandchildren about,

And never made it home to tell our stories.

Sincerely,

Jimmy Adams, Oakpark

Tralee