Dear LPG,

I would like to make sure that LPG takes a little time to remember today.

Today is the day that we in the UK are called upon to remember all those who fell during the many wars that have happened in our world, and the elders amongst us are what is left of the generation that will have had the most personal experiences of losing people who proudly dressed in a uniform, said goodbye and went off to fight never to return; not to mention all the other people who were directly affected as they tried to make the best of living with its effects on their homes and daily lives . 

This is because we pensioners are the only generation old enough to have been children who watched older brothers, uncles and fathers as they were conscripted to defend their countries.

As old as I am, it all happened before I was born but, the history books and films that have been made are there to remind all those under 75-year-olds that are now so young that they missed it, about what living through war is really like, although they will only ever experiance a taste of the realities of what was suffered by fighting men of all nationalities…

There have been wars since the second world war and, although those British people who have fought more recently were more likely to have been involved by choice, the consequences were no less painful for their friends and the members of their families that have been left behind.

I wonder if our children will recall, fully understand and include the victims of what I will always remember as the Covid-19 war of 2020, when it finds its way into the history books and future remembrance days come around.  Even though the enemy was not visible and did not start to lay down and die until our medical and research-based army found scientific weapons to defend ourselves with, so many young people have lived through it and nearly every UK citizen knows at least one person who has been affected or become lost to it by now?   

Last year it was Coronavirus which forced us to have a very subdued two minutes with social distancing dictating what could be done to help the nation remember, and I always feel that many of the young are put out when others stop what they are doing to observe those two minutes silence at 11:oo, so I just wanted to put the thought out there.  There are wars of all kinds and one that they have actually lived through might help to make the casualties of wars that they are too young to remember worth two minutes of their thoughts today…

OV, Lewisham 

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