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Lest We Forget
Today is Remembrance Day, Armistice Day or Veterans Day, depending on where you are, and the 90th anniversary of the end of World War One. A day to remember those who have died in war. In the UK, Canada and elsewhere we wear poppies, which grew on the fields of Flanders after WW1 finished, to show respect and remembrance for the dead and to support today's troops. Today I'll be wearing my poppy and remembering my grandfather, Robert Hawthorn, who lost a leg in North Africa during World War 2 and who died in 2001.
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Hard to believe it has been 90 years since the end of WWI. Read a story earlier, forget where, where there were three living veterans in the UK, one each of the RAF, Army and Navy. They were 112, 110 and 108 years old!
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