We Will Remember Them

I have programmed this post to appear at 10.00pm BST, the moment at which people all over the UK will be marking the centenary of Britain's entry into what was known to those who lived through it as "The Great War."

We will be putting out the lights as we remember those who died.

They went to fight hoping that they were taking part in "The war to end wars" but it only ended the lives of millions of people.

The first four lines of verse which conclude this post are from a poem called "For The Fallen" or the "Ode of Remembrance" which was written in September 1914.

As is traditional at Remembrance commemorations, I have also added another few lines which come from a memorial to those who died in a second great conflict a generation later.

"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."


"When you go home, tell them of us and say
For their tomorrow, we gave our today."

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