They were a living link with the past.
Times, Sunday Times
As the living link with the wars becomes fainter, so the remembrances become more morbidly nostalgic, with too much music.
Times, Sunday Times
The tradition, the living link to the great poems of antiquity, continues unbroken.
The Times Literary Supplement
Standing on a battlefield not only helps with military history but provides a living link with an otherwise distant and unfathomable past.
Times, Sunday Times
She, thrilled to have met a living link to the experiment, asked him to speak to her class.
The Times Literary Supplement