Please Remember.

This year on Remembrance Day I just sense the catchphrase ‘ lest we forget’ should be dwarfed ‘ Please remember’

Sad as it is the young people ( not their fault ) have little idea of the significance of the red poppy and why many wear it mid November. At a time that the profile of the very nation those young men and women fought for , adds to the confusion. Britain no longer great , no longer allied , a multi tongued , multi faith , truly international environment the fields of Flanders forgotten, the battle over Britain flown away.

This green and pleasant land that new Jerusalem often pitched in battle on the streets where divers voice , opinions and opine compete. Churchill forgotten by the lame mimic of Boris , the lawyer Starmer at hourly rate , as his colleague Lammy lambasts that special relationship which came to Allied rescue with man and money. The great General Eisenhower, a mere statue on Grosvenor Square with Embassy now departed to Vauxhall.

Times have changed so drastically, the cenotaph attacked we beg please remember. The German beaten, restored and prospered now only to see again decline beaten not by tank or man but by forces economic in this new world order.

Many of those that fought fade into the sunset yet wars of recent in Falklands , Suez , Afghanistan, Iraq remind us that the battles rage and though our troops are less their resolve to defend remains the same. Now they fight for King and country again and these days their battle is different, drone and digital , cyber and cutting.

As the clock strikes 11 . as we stand to respect let’s keep the flames of remembrance burn in honour of those who ever so young that fell men , women , animal and all in the dark days of war that yet can so easily revisit as man sinks to violence over jaw jaw. That predictable animal response to those that don’t get their way in school playgrounds to battlefields , tyrants and bullies.

Please remember.