Deserving to be honoured and recognised

Just Another Remembrance Day Or So I Thought

Until I learn about animal war heroes

Josephine Crispin
4 min readNov 10, 2024

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Photo taken by the author in her English hometown

That warm but strange feeling when you see something whose significance is only recently learned is not easy to describe.

That is how I feel when, walking around the plaza in my old hometown in Yorkshire, the Remembrance Day display in front of the town hall catches my eye.

It is not the poppies — mostly made of paper, others crocheted, a few of fabric — that grab my attention. Instead, the few photos that stand out amongst the rest made me walk at a jog towards the display.

And then, as I get closer, I gasped. In sheer elation. That strange feeling is no more. But I still cannot fully untangle that warmth I feel.

And what am I looking at?

Remembrance Day

Photo by the author, Remembrance Day 2024

Honouring the fallen soldiers of World War I and World War II and other conflicts on Remembrance Day, for me, is a solemn occasion to cherish and appreciate the freedom gained for succeeding generations by our war heroes.

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Josephine Crispin
Josephine Crispin

Written by Josephine Crispin

Writes about writing, nature, animals, the environment, social issues and spirituality. Editor and published author of romance novellas amongst other genres.