LEST WE FORGET

The feature in your November issue celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the Poppy Appeal was very interesting and incredibly moving.

The phrase “Lest We Forget” of course, is intended to warn people against forgetting those who fought and died for their country. The literal translation is “it should not be forgotten”. This is why it is often heard during Remembrance Day commemorations and it is often inscribed on war memorials and graves.

We should never forget, otherwise we become a nation that does not know its roots. I have a couple of relatives who died in the war. Family members have kept things around them, pictures, gifts given, clothes of the relatives who died, to keep fresh their remembrance of them. So many brave and amazing people gave their lives in the protection of our country. I am grateful not only to my own relatives but to everyone else who fought in a war and sacrificed their lives for ours.