This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Not only are military personnel killed and maimed, but civilian populations are also swept up in the destruction. American Civil War general, William T Sherman, once said, “War is hell” and many could testify from experience of its evil, including those who suffered under Sherman’s burning of Atlanta and his march to the sea. We probably knew someone who was killed in that war, or know a veteran who lived through it - and who may or may not have been scarred physically or psychologically. However, some veterans of the Korean War are still with us, and now many of us have fresh memories of more recent conflicts, such as the war in Afghanistan. The men who marched to the cenotaph in my hometown, who were then in their 40s, have mostly passed away. I also realize that the wars we commemorated in my childhood took place a very long time ago. I grew up hearing the stories of those who had lived and suffered through the world wars. One of my grandfathers was wounded in the Great War (First World War) and an uncle died in the bombing of London during the ‘Blitz’ of Sept.

We, too, whether or not we are Jewish, must continue to remember the Holocaust and its victims, just as we need to keep alive the memory of the sacrifice made by so many of the members of our Armed Forces in time of war.įor some of us, Remembrance Day has a very personal meaning because we had family members who served in the Forces, including some who did not return to their homes.

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