This past Tuesday, 70 years to the day his father was killed at the Battle of Anzio, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters honored Eric Fletcher Waters at a memorial ceremony in Italy.
“I have finally come to the end of a journey to discover what really happened to him,” Waters said at the site of a new marble monument in the town of Aprilia, south of Rome. “I feel an enormous attachment to my father today. I’m very happy to be here.”
The monument, which commemorates Eric Waters “and all the other fallen who have no known grave,” displays lyrics taken from Roger’s “Two Suns in the Sunset” from Floyd’s “The Final Cut” album: “Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend; we were all equal in the end.”
The younger Waters was 5-months-old when his father was killed Feb. 18, 1944. His body was never found.
Roger learned details of his death just recently, when WWII veteran Harry Schindler, 93, who also fought at Anzio, researched the battle and managed to recover a War Diary providing details.
Schindler also attended this week’s ceremony.
“Roger, I hope that you can go into calmer waters now and that this wall at least is down for you,” he said.
Read more about Roger Waters’s father and the battle that took his life.
what a great story, roger if u see this , would make a great movie
It DID make a great movie … and more.