Saddened by terrible waste of life

When I was a child a car hit a horse just down the road from where I was playing.

I was shooed off by adults, but the blood and the suffering of the beast had a profound effect on me, as have the pictures of horses in battle ever since.

I visit battlefields when ever I am able to pay my grateful respects, while I see the loss of men and their animals as a terrible waste.

Kevin Pyne

Dartmouth