We have always taken part with our church for Remembrance Sunday so it has always been a part of my life. I have heard the stories of my great grandfather being in the war and being captured as prisoner of war. I have also heard my Grandfather’s stories of his time, doing his service in the army. They are real stories by real people but this year, it seemed more relevant to me.
The weather was lovely for our Remembrance parade to the local cenotaph, this brought out people in our community. The church was packed for the service and it was wonderful to see so many support this day. The thing that struck me however, was the fact, so many younger people attended this year. From children, to teens, to young adults. All present to pay their respects.
I hear in work of one little boy’s Dad serving in Afghanistan on the frontlines and it makes it real.
Then on a day like this, I see a young man, who was once a young person I worked with as his youth worker, turn out in his uniform. So proud to see.
It makes it real.
These men and women are putting their lives on the line for freedom.
The service men and women of our country make it real. They bring it home. They are the friends and family we know and love, and they risk their everything to serve our country.
If the smallest gesture we can do in support of them is turn out on a glorious Sunday morning and show our respect, then I pledge to do just that!
Help for Heroes is one of the biggest growing charities of our country and I know why. Suddenly service men and women are a part of our communities again. We want to support them. They may not have world war status, but still they fight. They are the real men and women of our societies. They are the men and women who lay it all down for us.
So check out what’s happening in your local area for Help for Heroes or the Royal British Legion, and get behind our armed forces.
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