A tired soldier sits
Watching the tide rolling in,
Trying to forget.
This sculpture sits on the North Bay at Scarborough, North Yorkshire. It is called “Freddie Gilroy and the Belsen Stragglers”. Freddie Gilroy was a soldier in WW2, who participated in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The piece was made partly as a tribute to him, but also as a wider war and Holocaust memorial. For once the haiku genuinely has relevance.
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