Remembrance Sunday across the United Kingdom, when the Fallen from two World Wars and conflicts since are remembered. Two minutes' silence at 11 o'clock in the morning. This marks the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, when the guns fell silent, the end of the Great War. It later became the First World War, because less than 21 years later, the guns fired up again, and for six years, the world became a battlefield again. Even after two atomic bombs, dropped on two Japanese cities, war did not disappear from the face of the earth. Korea, Suez, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Falklands, the Balkans, Iraq, the Middle East generally - we have to accept war as a fact of life.
I conclude this post with one of the war memorials in the island of Lewis. This one can be found in the village of Breacleit in Great Bernera, which is an island off mainland Lewis, 25 miles west of Stornoway. Its tiny villages haemorrhaged young men during two world wars, remembered here. You may not have heard of Breaclete, Croir, Valasay, Tobson, Hacklete, Kirkibost; or Earshader, Crulivig and Lundale on mainland Lewis, part of Bernera.
Lest we forget
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