Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.’
For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.’
‘We will remember them.’
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Thursday, 11 November 2021
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, we will remember them
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.’
For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.’
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BOB,
ReplyDeleteSadly the worlds Nations haven't learnt a damn thing after The Great War- there are still wars upon wars- unnecesary death, destruction and suffering. John Lenon knew what he was talking about in his song 'Imagine'. Our Family lost our Great Uncle Edgar Robertson in WW1 -he died at Reading War Hospital from his wounds sustained in the Battle of the Somme...My Father and his Brothers all served in WW2...they are all dead now...I grew up in a street where every man there in the town was a Returned Serviceman...they are all dead now. The Boy who lived across the road here turned into a man and served in Afganistan only to return home to go into an Asylum...Damn WAR!!
Kev Robertson (Kev),
DeleteAs the generation who served in the Second World War die, the immediate link with that conflict is dieing with them. Luckily we have managed to avoid any other major conflicts since then, but still too many young men (and women) pay the price of our inability to find non-violent solutions to so many of the world’s problems. I may be a wargamer, but I have never thought that wars solve anything, although sometimes they are a necessary evil to ensure the destruction of greater evils. Perhaps HG Wells was right in suggesting that all politician and generals should play Little Wars to learn the Big Wars are terrible things to embark upon.
Keep safe and keep well,
Bob
It is good that we remember but sadly society does not learn from history.
ReplyDeleteSteve J.,
DeleteIf only we could learn from what has come before. We might not be in the mess we are now if we did!
All the best,
Bob
To my grandfathers who both served in the Pacific and my uncles who served in Europe during WW2. All came home and raised families of their own. My existence is indebted to them.
ReplyDeleteMr. Pavone,
DeleteIt’s good that your family members returned home safe and well. My parents were lucky in that neither of them lost siblings, but my grandfathers both lost close relatives.
It is important that we remember what they did for us … and that we try to ensure that the generations that come after us know and understand that the lives they live now are a result of sacrifices those earlier generations made.
All the best,
Bob