All my love & kisses & a big kiss for Jud August 24, 2008

The hopes and dreams of too many young men ended abruptly during the course of World War Two.  A great many families were to lose the love of someone they held dear, a love that could never be replaced.

I have compiled these letters for my sons Alasdair, Ian and Michael (Foxx) so that they can learn a little about the Grandfather they never knew.

The memory of his hope and his courage deserves to be kept alive for the grandchildren he would have loved had he been given the chance to know them.

Catch me a moment

Wrap it around my mind

Catch me a moment

But not one too unkind.

Catch me a moment

The nicest you can find,

Catch me a moment

Don’t leave it behind.

 

Trap it in my memory

So it won’t come undone,

Trap it in my memory

To shine like the sun.

Trap it in my memory

So we become as one,

Trap it in my memory

Until my day is done.

Jo Halleron 1992

CONFUSION August 17, 2008

“it gets worse every day”.

What does?

“What does what”?

What gets worse every day?

“Who said that”?

You said it.

“What did I say”?

That it gets worse every day.

“Oh, does it”?

Now listen, you said

“It gets worse every day”.

I said what does,

You said “What does what”?

I said what gets worse,

“You said “Who said that”?

I said you said it,

You said “What did I say”?

I said that you said it

gets worse every day,

You said “Oh does it”?

So come on, what gets

worse every day?

“My memory, I think”!