Frederick Giasson’s Weblog

I’m finishing reading The Wars by Timothy Findley. It’s the story of Robert Ross a nineteen-year-old Canadian officer during the WWI. I want to share a quote from this book with you. Lady Juliet D’Orsey to Timothy Findley cited it during an interview done around 1970. Lady Juliet was talking of her brother Clive to Robert:

“Someone once said to Clive: do you think we will ever be forgiven for what we’ve done? They meant their generation and the war and what the war had done to civilization. Clive said something I’ve never forgotten. He said: I doubt we’ll ever be forgiven. All I hope is — they’ll remember we were human beings.”