This is about a young man who joined the army probably because he had no hope of any other work and is killed. The vision of his mourning mother waiting in an aerodrome for her sons body is quite striking. To me this reminds me of all those poor boys and men killed in Northern Ireland, fighting in a brutal and nasty conflict...Or perhaps in the more recent war in the Gulf..
This is about a young man who joined the army probably because he had no hope of any other work and is killed. The vision of his mourning mother waiting in an aerodrome for her sons body is quite striking. To me this reminds me of all those poor boys and men killed in Northern Ireland, fighting in a brutal and nasty conflict...Or perhaps in the more recent war in the Gulf..