WE stood in silence at the eleventh hour on Armistice Day; the older generations remembering their own personal experiences.
But how can they convey to future generations the enormity of the conflict spread over two world wars which took the lives of at least 100 million men, women and children?
Remembering may be easy. Understanding why and how every one of those lives was lost is almost impossible and, yet, if we do not try to understand, then we must surely add to that total.
F BILLINGTON (Mr), East Crescent, Accrington.
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