Remembrance Sunday commemorations
Today a very large number of people will have attended or watched events to commemorate the end of World War One and all those who were killed in that war, WWII and subsequent wars.
And it is right that we should remember them. Baroness Warsi, then a minister wrote a very good article on the subject a few years back which is worth a re-read here.
Almost all MPs, a very significant proportion of County councillors (including myself) and indeed many distict councillors and other civic leaders face a difficult choice of which commemoration event to attend as they take place all over the country, many of them at the same time, and there are often clashes. There are at least five places where events took place this morning or will take place later today covering places which I represent or have represented in the past.
I will endeavour to make all of them at least once in the four-year local electoral cycle, but this year am attending two events.
I was at a wreath laying at one of the St Bees war memorials at 11am this morning, and at the time of writing am about to attend one in Moor Row at 1.30pm,
Postscript - the time which had been published in local newspapers for the Moor Row event was wrong, it started at 1pm rather than 1.30pm and my wife and I were among a large number of people who would have liked to attend the Moor Row commemoration but arrived as it was finishing. Should have known better than to trust the press: I will check with the organisers rather than risk being misinformed again next year!
And it is right that we should remember them. Baroness Warsi, then a minister wrote a very good article on the subject a few years back which is worth a re-read here.
Almost all MPs, a very significant proportion of County councillors (including myself) and indeed many distict councillors and other civic leaders face a difficult choice of which commemoration event to attend as they take place all over the country, many of them at the same time, and there are often clashes. There are at least five places where events took place this morning or will take place later today covering places which I represent or have represented in the past.
I will endeavour to make all of them at least once in the four-year local electoral cycle, but this year am attending two events.
I was at a wreath laying at one of the St Bees war memorials at 11am this morning, and at the time of writing am about to attend one in Moor Row at 1.30pm,
Postscript - the time which had been published in local newspapers for the Moor Row event was wrong, it started at 1pm rather than 1.30pm and my wife and I were among a large number of people who would have liked to attend the Moor Row commemoration but arrived as it was finishing. Should have known better than to trust the press: I will check with the organisers rather than risk being misinformed again next year!
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