James Holland
speaker
22,142 appearances
48 recordings
7 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 5d ago
James Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In a year he was married and a homeowner.
He was a father after a year, and as my mum, Christine, was born in nineteen forty eight.
Everyone talked about the war, but also no one talked about the war.
No one asked how did the war make you feel, Jack?
You okay, mate?
You wanna talk?
No.
He just kept on going and going, and going and going until he couldn't keep going.
I think that this is where his heroism can be found.
He didn't complain, or Winge.
He just got on with it.
Like my great grandparents who worried themselves sick, my great auntie who never married so she could look after her brother on return.
Like my grandmother and like millions of others, he was a casualty of war.
I never heard him mention the war.
I saw his slouch hat next to the mower and looked at it like it was a sacred object.
But he never marched on Anzac Day, never wore his medals, and never ever mentioned a single thing.
He just kept going.
He died in nineteen eighty eight.
I'm forty seven now and history's my life.
I'm a high school history teacher, and I would like to think that I can look at the Second World War with some perspective.
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