Remembrance

We left Paris today and made a very special Remembrance Day trip to the town of Laventie. We went to place poppies at the grave of Daddy's Great Uncle Robert who was only 21 years old when he was killed in action in October 1916. So many young soldiers lost their lives in the trenches but although they're gone ... they really haven't been forgotten!


"The sun's shining down on these green fields of France;
The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance.
The trenches have vanished long under the plow;
No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's Land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man.
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned."

(Eric Bogle - from Green Fields of France)