Remembrance Day

I was asked to conduct the 2 Minutes silence today at work.  It is the first aniversary of the the Armistice day without the livinfg presence of those who had been combatants in that first world war.  There is no-one left now, who remembers the horrors of the trenches.  This is a good thing I think.  No-one now has to remember.  One of those three who died this year had tried to forget but as he grew older the memory returned.   What we must do is not forget - not forget that on the first day of the Somme thirty thousand died.  . We cannot forget that nearly 750,000 British soldiers died in the 4 years of fighting, not to mention the French, Germans, Belgians, Americans, Turks, Russians, Australians, Indians and many others.   Now it is news that one life is lost - rightly so. Then if the Prime minister read out the names at question time- Lloyd George would still be speaking.  We must not forget.   At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them all.