Wednesday 11 November 2015

Forgive - yes, but let us remember

I am back from the Rememberance Day Service at Soldiers Memorial Hospital. I was just struck by a memory from May in Turkey: Florence Nightingale
- nurse, war, born in Italy, died in England. What's so civil about war?

I think we need better balance. A little boy gave me the Medicine Wheel
on Halloween; all Saints Day is November 1.





Cenotaph






Wreath laying:


Afterwards:


There were ocassional drops of rain:



However, there were no muddy trenches, lest we forget:



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