100,000 candles to remember our loss

WE all have them. That point in our lives when some event in our lives makes us stop and somewhere in the recesses of our mind we place a milestone – call it a marker.

We can divide them into two groups: personal ones and public ones.

The personal ones – the day I first set my eyes on the girl I would marry. The moment I set my eyes on our first-born daughter and the day she first stood and walked towards me. Then a long list of personal things.

As we become more aware of the world around us, we collect public ones that for us were significant pubic happenings.

The day Yeovil Town, I think, lost 8-1 to Manchester United in the FA Cup. The day the Telstar satellite reached across the Atlantic from Goonhilly to the USA and we had visual televised contact with America. The day John Kennedy was assassinated. The day the war ended.

Let’s all put one down for yesterday, 26th January, 2021. Not a stone to put down, but a light to put up.

On Sunday, 31st January, 2021, let us all put up a lighted candle in our window.

100,000 lights to lighten our sadness and remember our dead.

M D Frampton Newton Abbot