Memorial

On 12th December 1939 not very far from where I live, the Red Army shelled a trench which at the time was occupied by 21 Finnish soldiers. 19 of these were killed and buried in a temporary burial site marked by a wooden cross. In our local graveyard today we photographed that cross now encased in a glass case designed by one of the iittala glassworks designers. The remains of the victims of the Russian aggression have now been re-interred here beside the memorial, along with so many more of our local war dead. 

History is never dead and gone. It tends to repeat itself and still we never learn.