Yesterday we caught snatches on TV and radio of the ceremonies surrounding D Day.
We were very touched listening to a French lady who at 4 years old lived in Normandy at the first village liberated by the paratroopers. Another at Caen was told by her Mother to stop peeping out of the windows to look at the sky alight with fire. She vividly remembers looking out to sea and being amazed that the sea was just full of ships. The invasion and the fight for Normandy lasted a few weeks, it was not all liberated on D Day.
Also seeing the old soldiers remembering their dead friends brought a lump to one's throat, how the events of that day must have shaped their lives.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.
The "Ode of Remembrance" is an ode taken from Laurence Binyon's poem, "For the Fallen", which was first published in The Times in September 1914. A quote from the first world war but is just as relevant with the second.
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