Deserving to be honoured and recognised
Just Another Remembrance Day Or So I Thought
Until I learn about animal war heroes
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
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.
