Fireplace - "After the victory" (Hommage at John Cookson's grave)
Channel: Fireplace
Date: 2018-09-18

John Cookson was a member of the International Brigades who died at the Ebro's Front during Spanish Civil War.

He was a communist, had a gifted mind and passed away at the age of 25 defending Spain from fascism.

His grave was never founded by Franco's dictatorial regime because the town of Marçà (where the field hospital where Cookson had died was located) kept the secret of it's emplacement to this day.

The song "After the victory", played acoustic by the band Fireplace on august 2nd 2018 at his grave during the hommage to the international brigades member, is inspired by his story.

In the last letter from his father before Cooksons's death, he wrote to him: "A man may as well die young having died for a purpose than to live a whole life without any"

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