Saturday, 13 November 2010

rememberance sunday

Hello again, today my adventures took me to Bedford yesterday, after which I did the Bingo run to Clifton, It has been kinda nice to use my left leg to drive.

As it is rememberance sunday, I am going to reflect on a coach trip I drove a few years ago for the VJ rememberance ceremony, this was held at Peterborough back in 2005, I volunteered for the job, and it was in the wheelchair coach, as we were carrying some vets who were wheelchair bound. The weather was nice and sunny, and I went fo a wander round Peterborough, doing things like photographing the local buses. I digress,

Anyway, I also watched the parade and realised that when it came round to the next VJ day, in 2015, most of the vets who took part would no longer be with us, quite a moving thought, We are all getting no younger, and some of the people on the bus had been POW's under the Japanese regime, and were thus mistreated in horrible ways.

No war is a pleasant thing to go through, but sometimes we need to fight to stop a tyranny in its tracks. All ready a dangerous situation is unfolding, there is the war on terror against Alquaeda, there is also the conflict in Gaza, with the Palastinians and Isreal, whos war crimes record is far from clean. The sad fact is while there is humanity there will be conflict. The quest for world peace will always be there too, and in an ideal world it would be nice, but this is a far from ideal world.

So please pay your respects today, today is for the fallen, the average citizens who took up arms to defend the country, the world infact from a tyranny whose ideas were based on the distorted views of one man, helped by other men who were happy to exterminate a race, because they deemed them as inferior. Many atrocities were committed during both wars. There are maybe lots more we dont even know about, and perhaps never will do.

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