Never, ever should we forget why we stop on the 11th November.
A couple of weeks ago before we were locked into tier 3 and then locked again into lockdown Stuart and I had a cinema club and the film that he brought (we weren’t going to the cinema, we were watching in the academy space) was 1917.
It reminded me of the picture that is currently on the floor in the practice ready to be hung up of Alison’s great grandfather in the first world war who was mentioned in dispatches by Field Marshal Haig.
His certificate is signed by the minister for war who is Winston Churchill.
I have no idea what he had to do in some of the most difficult circumstances that anyone can imagine, to obtain a certificate for bravery but whatever it was he did it.
After we finished watching 1917 Stuart and I talked for a short while about how people think they’ve got it sh*t at the moment but really, we don’t know what sh*t is.
November 11th should always remind us of that.
It’s tragic for every single family that loses a person to the pandemic and in particular people who are under the age of 70.
Perhaps it was a little bit harder though to send everybody under the age of 25 to be slaughtered on the Field of Flanders.
There is another side to this and I don’t know what it looks like and neither do you but it is there anyway, in the same way that there was another side to the atrocities and slaughter and genocide of two world wars.
Remembering that humans were able to do it before perhaps makes it easier for us to see that it will be possible to do it again.
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