It’s looming – and from today it’s apparently officially acceptable to wear a poppy.
No longer are the Remembrance Sunday parades packed out with survivors of the Somme, even veterans from the Second World War are getting rarer by the day, and the curmudgeon in all of us feels like asking if anyone remembers why they bothered seeing the state of the world today.
But none of that matters. And no, it doesn’t matter if you opposed the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan either. Donate. Though none of us can ever understand, we must remember.
the curmudgeon in all of us feels like asking if anyone remembers why they bothered seeing the state of the world today
I’m sure Himmler would have very much approved of plans to monitor all internet and phone use and require ID to buy a PAYG phone.
“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.”
- Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet On The Western Front, Chapter 12