
Remembrance Sunday - and I was honored to be asked by the Chamber of Commerce to lay a wreath at the war memorial on their behalf. It was a real community gathering and a really poignant service in the church which concluded outside at the war memorial. Good to see such a large congregation, so many young and old. And the horror of war was brought home to us this year with injured representative of the troops from Iraq and Afghanistan there with us. No longer the old men on sticks and in wheelchairs from wars fought in times before I can remember, but the immediate and shocking present too.
I was going to write about this event as part of my previous 'busy weekend' post. But this merits a quite separate article.
I was going to provide you further pictures and say that I wish that even more people could have joined us, but it was such an event, and my involvement was such, that it would have been disrespectful of me to click away while I was still a part of the proceedings.
(written 2009-11-08)
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