Remember

you may or may not have noticed my laxity in blipping - i've been snapping tho, promise. but this is one day in all the year when i have to blip: remember.

wearing a poppy doesn't mean you're in favour of war - who on earth is in favour of people dying, losing limbs, getting ptsd? wearing a poppy means you remember those who have given their lives, limbs, sanity, blood and sweat because someone else decided we needed a war. you can remember and respect those who serve and have served without agreeing with the war they serve in.

i was in london recently with my parents on holiday, and we went to the imperial war museum to visit the lord ashcroft VC gallery. outstanding men and women just doing what they saw as their job. if you can't bring yourself to salute that, i don't know what planet you're on.

and if you want to hear the insider view of what it's like to be there, to lose people, well, read between the lines of some of airborneskygod's blips.

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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
From Laurence Binyon's poem For the Fallen, September 1914