Sri Lanka, Nov. 6 -- We remember and we forget. We know numbers. We know the aggregate. We know history in sweeps. Details? Not so much. When thousands die, individual names get swept away by the enormity of it all. And we forget.

Lieutenant Manohara De Silva was never forgotten by those closest to him. Family and friends. He joined the Army after leaving school, sometime in the year 1989. He was in the infantry. He died in action four years later.

His school friends from Royal College remembered him. Again. There was a difference this time. They inaugurated something in his name: the Lieutenant Manohara de Silva WWV Memorial Education Scholarship. It was officially launched at the Army Headquarters. Accordingly, 12 deserving students r...