NO WREATH FOR TODGER

COULD I please ask people and organisations not to put a wreath on or near the statue of Todger Jones VC DCM in Runcorn?

He survived WW1 and his statue represents everyone who has served our country only to be forgotten on discharged right up to the present day, and NOT the fallen.

If you wish to place a wreath, please lay on the War Memorial across the road, that is dedicated to the fallen.

For people in Widnes, please feel free to lay a Wreath on the statue of Sgt Tom Mottershead VC DCM as he gave his life in WW1.

The centenary on 11/11/18 is not for the end of WW1, it’s for the cease fire.

The War actually ended on Saturday, June 28, 1919, with the signing of the Versailles Treaty in the Hall Of Mirrors in the Palace Of Versailles in Paris.

That is why war memorials and cenotaphs show 1914-19.

Please remember on the 11/11/1918 was a time of mixed feelings, the public in general were joyous, but thousands of others had recently and were still receiving the dreaded telegram to inform the next of kin of the loss or presumed missing in action of a loved one.

Everyone who was serving abroad didn’t celebrate, they had only known war for the past four years or so.

All they knew was killing or caring for others and suddenly the killing came to a stop. What next? What was all the slaughter for? And what next? To quote Harry Patch, the last Tommy from WW1: “To me, it’s a licence to go out and murder.

“Why should the British Government call me up and take me out to a battlefield to shoot a man I never knew, whose language I couldn’t speak?

“All those lives lost for a war finished over a table. “Now what is the sense in that? “It was legalised murder.” Tragically it still happens today, politicians wanting our young men and women to go and kill people in other lands. When will politicians learn? Our young men and women are someone’s son or daughter and not their personal cannon fodder.

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