Armistice - Maurice Langaskens
A few days ago was armistice. I asked my children if they knew what happened on that day, on November 11th 1918. They didn’t, so we talked about it. I told them that my father’s uncle, Henry Xavier Derroitte, a subdeacon monk at the Maredsous Abbey died on the front, at the Battle of the Yser, as he was trying to get to a wounded soldier, on May 3rd 1916. He was a noncombatant, trying to save a life, and paid with his. That’s part of my history, and theirs.
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