Thought For The Day – Friday 15th November 2024
“At The Going Down Of The Sun And In The Morning”
The photographs above and below were taken of the school earlier this week.
“At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.”
This week we reflected, remembered and respected at our new school.
“A legacy of love”: A very moving story of one inspirational person’s sacrifice and a wonderful family’s inspiration. Both are beyond words. Play at 5 minutes 30 seconds to 8 minutes 40 seconds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0024zmd/remembrance-sunday-the-cenotaph-2024-highlights?seriesId=unsliced
The above interview closes with the words: “It is a huge way to say thank you when the words thank you will never, ever be enough.”
“Remembrance touches the heart and the soul”, said Reverend Brian Williams, who served in the Falkland Islands, on the BBC’s “Songs of Praise” Remembrance Sunday edition on Sunday 10th November.
Reverend Williams said he remembers every day.
The final words from David Dimbleby to the BBC’s broadcast of “Remembrance Sunday: The Cenotaph”, on 10th November 2024, were:
“It is always a very sobering thought that if a column of all the dead who have been commemorated here this morning were to pass the Cenotaph just three abreast here in Whitehall, London, the front of that column would be here at the Cenotaph, the back of it would be in Edinburgh. If you talk to any of the veterans who have come here today, they all say they have not come here to celebrate victory. These poppies, these wreaths, are laid to pay tribute and remember those who died…It is the people who gave their lives and came back injured. It is that memory that they are here to commemorate. In the words of etched on thousands of war memorials: ‘Lest We Forget.’”
