Great, but emotional day.

Lots of things happened today.
Set off on the bike in the rain, cleared up on the way to Ledbury, Herefordshire, and the sun came out.
I was attending the Herefordshire WW1 Commemoration Day as it is 100 years last month since the Battle of Jutland and on the 1st July the first battle of the Somme.
As the day went on the clouds rolled in and we had a little rain, until we gathered at the community centre to march to the town centre when the heavens opened and we had a deluge. From then on it rained on and off but we formed up and marched, with a very good fire brigade band, to the town centre where the inspection was taken by Her Majesty's Lord High Sheriff of Herefordshire, Bill. He looked rather like Michael Palin but his partner, Jilly, said he thinks he looks more like Richard Gere (see one of the extras where you can make your own mind up).
Another event was just awful as we were lined up in ranks of 3 waiting for the inspection, service, wreath laying and march past, all of which took place despite the following event.
An old Royal British Legion chap behind and to the left of me collapsed. I wasn't aware of it at first as the man next to him caught him as he was falling and broke his fall to the ground. St John's Ambulance rushed to him and I glanced around and saw they were giving him CPR trying to revive him. When the ambulance got there, within a very few minutes, others went and got tarpaulins to section him off as they needed to treat him urgently. They then put him in the ambulance but did not rush away. Another ambulance arrived as back up (reason unknown) but I heard later that the paramedics thought he was probably dead before he reached the ground.
Such a sad event but the organisers were quite right to go ahead with the rest of the day as no-one was aware he had died until after the main part of the event was over.
Apart from this being sad, although I did think that it's how I'd like to go, quick and doing something I love doing, it was a very emotional occasion. It was led by the Royal Navy, crew from HMS Ledbury, 'Hearts of Oak' played which always brings a lump to my throat, and then the Laurence Binyon poem 'They shall grown not old as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. 
At the going down of the Sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
We all then repeated 'We Will Remember Them'. And then the Kohima Epitaph, no wonder a tear rolled down my cheek.
'When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.'