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Found in a Foot Locker - The Forgotten Sacrifice of Robert L. Todd (Paperback)
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Found in a Foot Locker - The Forgotten Sacrifice of Robert L. Todd (Paperback)
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Loot Price R433
Discovery Miles 4 330
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If like me you have an interest in military history, have you ever
visited a military war grave cemetery? Walking past the immaculate
rows of headstones, at first I tend to look at each individual name
in detail, but after a while the names just fade to a blur because
there are just so many of them. Soon you are no longer looking at
the name but the battalion or regiment, and in the bigger
cemeteries after about fifty rows of headstones, the scale of loss
is so great it is impossible to appreciate every single stone
marker. Standing back and looking at the whole scene, it's
difficult to remember that each one of those headstones symbolises
one lost person, a husband, a father or a brother. Each headstone
is a permanent reminder that he or she] had a face, a family, and a
story to tell, a story that saw them lose their lives for the
defence of others, surely worth remembering, but as you look again
around the cemetery, how many people's stories buried in there are
known to anyone at all? This book is about one of those stories,
Sgt Robert L. Todd. Nine men lost their lives at 6am on the morning
of April 5th 1945 in a B-17 takeoff accident in Cambridgeshire,
England. In the scheme of things you might say that nine men in a
war that took millions is nothing, hardly worth remembering, but
when we see their faces, when we hear their friends and colleagues
talk about them with such reverence, suddenly for a moment they
become the most important story of all. Robert Todd's story was
literally 'Found in a Foot Locker' many years after his death, and
this is my attempt to share his experience with you.
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