The English Government, in 2014, for the hundredth anniversary of the First World War (Great World) invited people to write a letter to the Unknown. All the letter received were sent to Paddington station where there is the statue of the Unknown Soldier represented while he is reading a letter. The Unknown Warrior received over 21 thousand letters from very different people. (grandparents,children, teachers..).
I think that the letter as a memorial is the proper way to remember a sad and violent period as the Great War. In my opinion for writing a letter people have to reflect about their ideas and emotions about this event, they also have to identify themselves in someone that lived in the same period the Unknown Soldier did. The letter is a personal text: you need to be alone with yourself, writing to the Unknown Soldier people write to themselves, too. It isn’t an easy ‘activity’ because all that we know about the Great War don’t come from our direct experience but we may have read or heard some stories or other anecdotes. I also think that this intimate way to keep alive the Unknown Warrior in our memory, it’s better than all the public ceremony when what people say and do is always the same. On the contrary every letter is unique and different from the other: everyone wrote his/her own personal emotion and thoughts about an event that must be remember.