…to remember to remember. Yes, a mouthful, but considering why it is that we should do so does tend to put things into perspective. All the nameless and now largely forgotten women who brought about the female vote; innocent victims of circumstance, such as the passengers on the Lusitania, the centenary of whose sinking hasContinue reading “Never forgetting…”
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The Battle of Aubers Ridge…
…centenary draws ever nearer. The other day I was sent a copy of the programe of events for the “In The Field” presentation in the local Wadhurst church. I was slightly amused to read that the first public performance of my march is a “world premiere”. Well, it is of course, although, until I sawContinue reading “The Battle of Aubers Ridge…”
Why do we remember…
…and what is it that makes other remember us? Do others remember us, or do they remember the events with which we might have been associated? I remember being very moved by visiting the sea of over 800,000 ceramic red poppies installed in the moat of the Tower of London in the months before ArmisticeContinue reading “Why do we remember…”
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