November 11 we will remember the veterans. Can war bring a silver lining? Here is proof it can.
When World War 1 ended there were thousands of horses that had survived and were not returned to their homelands of England, Canada or Australia. In 1930 Dorothy Brooke arrived in Cairo, Egypt.She was horrified to find hundreds of emaciated and down trodden horses that had been sold into a life of hard labor at the end of the war. She wrote a letter to the Morning Post ( now the Daily Telegraph) in London.She pleaded with readers to have compassion on these poor war horses.
“These old horses were, many of them, born and bred in the green fields of England – how many years since they have seen a field, heard a stream of water, or a kind word in English?”
Her appeal was successful and she received £20,000 in today’s money. She spent the next five years purchasing these warhorses and most were humanely put down and allowed…
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