ATONEMENT.
“Atonement—how ca,n we atone for the lost millions and millions of years of life, how atone for those lakes and sells, of blood? * Something is, unfulfilled, and that ;ik' poisoning us. It is poisoning meRaC any rate, though L hnyevngmiised ,. .. What can we do? s Headstones A and wreaths and memorials , and’ speeches and the Cenotaph—no, no, it has got to he something in us. , Somehow we must atone to the dead—the dead, murdered, violently—dead soldiers The reproach is 1 hot from them, hut in ourselves. Most of us don’t know it, but it is there and poisons us. It is the poison that makes us heartless and hopeless and lifeless—us the war generation, and the new generation, too?”—Prom the prologue to the “Death of a Hero,” the novel by Richard Aldington.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1929, Page 5
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133ATONEMENT. Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1929, Page 5
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