“In my grandmother’s experience, my grandfather was dead, and it also took 14 days, without messages, before my grandfather returned,” continues IJmker. “The tension has been enormous. He has experienced shelling from the air and from the trees. He was a crash rider and together with two other comrades had to drive the six horses that pulled a cannon piece. On narrow roads that is a very dangerous undertaking, because you you can’t turn around and if anything comes up with aerial shelling you’re just a target And of course the Germans are going to shell the cannon pieces first so he witnessed that up close He didn’t come back after the war as the one he was before used to be.”
‘Write to a dead person?’ is personal theater about grandfather and war
