Especially thinking of.....

A very large and touching turn out for the Remembrance Day service at Myrtle Park in Bingley today.  A beautiful autumnal day, and during the two minutes' silence the wind rustled the decaying leaves in the trees like spirits were amongst us.

During the service, children from the crowd and local schools were encouraged to plant a poppy in the earth around the Cenotaph and I looked closely at them afterwards.

Whilst reading this one, which I thought was so sweet, a lady placed the cross behind... she wanted it there because it is in front of Sgt Kenneth Watmough's name on the Cenotaph.  Her uncle died on the 16th December 1943, aged 23.  He was an RAF Gunner and part of Bomber Command, and his plane was shot down whilst on an operation to bomb Berlin.  He has a grave at the Hanover War Cemetery.  A little bit more info here should you be interested.  Just one droplet of course in the oceans of blood, but I was touched by the chance meeting with his niece today.