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Michele Hewitson Interview: Bob Scott |
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Written by NZ HERALD
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Saturday, 24 April 2010 |
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By Michele
Hewitson
4:00 AM Saturday Apr 24, 2010
We met on the 12th of October, 2007, in the tiny Belgian town of Ypres,
at the Menin Gate, where every night at 8pm the Last Post sounds - a
tribute from the people of the town to the many British and Commonwealth
troops who passed this way, through the old city gate on their way to
the Allied front line.
Was it a misty night? It should have been. It's a misty memory. I met
him moments before he and Fred Allen, another former All Black and WWII
veteran laid a wreath. The card read: To Our Fallen All Blacks.
He said: "It makes you want to cry, doesn't it?" We did and we hugged
and that was the beginning of an enduring, if long distance, sort of
romance. It was love, if not at first sight, at Last Post.
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