We will remember them
Nov. 11th, 2018 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberdreamsMy lovely friend Lois has made this beautiful animation for Remembrance Sunday, which is going to be projected onto Sherringham Hall in Norfolk. With her permission, I'm sharing a minute's silence here.
World War I ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918. People died on battlefields up to the last minute. Many died afterwards, from wounds. Millions died from the Spanish flu in the years that followed. These were sad and tragic times - and even though this war was so bloody and damaging, all war didn't end like it should have. People didn't learn.
So Remembrance Sunday is still relevant to us, and it doesn't matter that different countries have different days on which to do this - the more times we remember, the more we are drawn together in the hope that we can make the world a better place.
World War I ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918. People died on battlefields up to the last minute. Many died afterwards, from wounds. Millions died from the Spanish flu in the years that followed. These were sad and tragic times - and even though this war was so bloody and damaging, all war didn't end like it should have. People didn't learn.
So Remembrance Sunday is still relevant to us, and it doesn't matter that different countries have different days on which to do this - the more times we remember, the more we are drawn together in the hope that we can make the world a better place.