{"id":9753,"date":"2023-04-24T17:38:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/24\/touched-by-a-tragic-first-world-war-tale-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T17:38:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:38:38","slug":"touched-by-a-tragic-first-world-war-tale-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/24\/touched-by-a-tragic-first-world-war-tale-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Touched by a tragic first world war tale | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shot at dawn | Emergency alerts at evensong | A message to Airstrip One | Ofsted\u2019s \u2018inadequate\u2019 | Jack Nicholson in Reds<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Pearce-Broomhead\u2019s piece (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/apr\/24\/country-diary-pte-archibald-browne-is-remembered\" title=\"\">Country diary, 24 April<\/a>) is probably the most emotionally charged article I\u2019ve seen in over 40 years of reading the Guardian. I have sons the same age as these young men who were shot for supposed crimes such as \u201cdesertion\u201d and \u201ccowardice\u201d in the first world war. May my children never have to go through what these young men did. <br \/><strong>Rob Turnbull<\/strong><br \/><em>Hexham, Northumberland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The government\u2019s emergency alert came for me as I was listening to choral evensong on BBC Radio 3 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/apr\/23\/uk-emergency-alert-test-three-looking-into-why-users-failed-to-get-text\" title=\"\">UK emergency alert test: Three looking into why users failed to get text, 23 April<\/a>). The appointed psalms for the day did not, sadly, include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm+19%3A4&amp;version=NLV\" title=\"\">19:4<\/a>, \u201cTheir sound has gone out\u2026\u201d \u2013 but the choir did at least sing \u201cMake a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Psalm%20100:1-2&amp;version=ESVUK\" title=\"\">Psalm 100:1<\/a>). <br \/><strong>Fr Alec Mitchell <\/strong><br \/><em>Holyhead, Anglesey<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/24\/touched-by-a-tragic-first-world-war-tale\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/57e4d4a0daab4d085ec0ea3e59c992bcecc46238\/0_216_5400_3240\/master\/5400.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6d3205d84de38806d2017380f4cf1bde\" title=\"Touched by a tragic first world war tale | Brief letters\" \/>Shot at dawn | Emergency alerts at evensong | A message to Airstrip One | Ofsted\u2019s \u2018inadequate\u2019 | Jack Nicholson in Reds<br \/>\nAlexandra Pearce-Broomhead\u2019s piece (Country diary, 24 April) is probably the most emotionally charged article I\u2019ve seen in over 40 years of reading the Guardian. I have sons the same age as these young men who were shot for supposed crimes such as \u201cdesertion\u201d and \u201ccowardice\u201d in the first world war. May my children never have to go through what these young men did. Rob TurnbullHexham, Northumberland<br \/>\n\u2022 The government\u2019s emergency alert came for me as I was listening to choral evensong on BBC Radio 3 (UK emergency alert test: Three looking into why users failed to get text, 23 April). The appointed psalms for the day did not, sadly, include 19:4, \u201cTheir sound has gone out\u2026\u201d \u2013 but the choir did at least sing \u201cMake a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth\u201d (Psalm 100:1). Fr Alec Mitchell Holyhead, Anglesey Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shot at dawn | Emergency alerts at evensong | A message to Airstrip One | Ofsted\u2019s \u2018inadequate\u2019 | Jack Nicholson in Reds Alexandra Pearce-Broomhead\u2019s piece (Country diary, 24 April) is probably the most emotionally charged article I\u2019ve seen in over 40 years of reading the Guardian. I have sons the same age as these young &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/24\/touched-by-a-tragic-first-world-war-tale-brief-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Touched by a tragic first world war tale | Brief letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}