allilongbottom:
grannypiper:
bertieandrew:
You’re wrong. Maybe I’m wrong, please, let me rephrase this before you go on. The people who want to keep memories alive should have the power to do so. You go after it! You do it! I know what that’s like; the need, the determination, the calling. You don’t know the support you have. You have it… silently, you have it… out loud, when we have the chance, like Piper and I have now. I can promise you, as someone who wanted nothing to do with that war, that neither the protector nor the protected deserves more of a voice, though I can also promise you that as a human being, you deserve to give and take the truth. Time forgets history as long as people let it. People speak, girls, dead, living. You think voices aren’t suppressed, including those of the people that did their part in saving all of us in one way or another, including your grandparents? You’re telling me your thoughts don’t add up to the very excuse someone else might have against you? Your grandparents didn’t make it? Baloney.
Look what you’ve been left with. Count your blessings, kid.
Take it from us.
No. No, don’t you start crying now, you can deal with me later.
All of this is all very touching but I’m tired of the past. I’m tired of living under shadows without a war of my own to fight and I don’t know what the point was in me trying to go in this direction because there is no reason to redeem something no one thinks needs to be redeemed. It’s never going to matter. None of this is ever going to matter, I’m never going to matter. There’s never going to be anything more than this; this is it. So that’s that. Give her the bloody book and go back to work.