My Grandfathers Diaries

My Grandfather wrote a diary when at the first world war and now many of us get so much from them.  They mean something to each of us who read them.  They will have different meaning to each individual who reads them and they will have an affect on each one of us in  different ways.  Last night I watched the  TV One, Sunday programme and saw a war diary returned from NZ to Italy to a man aged 96.  That little book, his written words became a big story throughout NZ and for the town the man lived in in Italy.  Such a beautiful story!  Its beautiful partly because it is history .  That lovely mans history.  We never want to live in the past we always want to look for bright futures but living with history, like my grandfathers war diaries are a part of our personal and our countryman's  history.  We must cherish it as part of our place on earth.  Sadly too many have left this world without sharing their history through their eyes.