Thought For The Day – Friday 7th June 2024
We Will Remember Them
Whilst people are with us in this life, we treasure their company, and hear their story, every day.
Those who have passed away we remember, and are inspired by, each day.
They are always with us and they always guide us.
Yesterday, there were historic, humbling, inspirational and memorable scenes on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of D-Day. This is a wonderful and commemorative video montage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c844ryz2j9do
Very movingly, the day began, as D-Day did 80 years ago, with a lone piper, playing a lament, leading British soldiers on to Gold beach in Normandy at 6:25 U.K. time, 7:25 local time.
Throughout yesterday, and on Wednesday beforehand, a truly extraordinary generation, at home and abroad, were celebrated, honoured, greatly respected and massively thanked.
True heroes and Inspirations like Christian Lamb, 103 years old, shown in the last picture above, a British naval officer who helped draw up maps for the D-Day landings, and who was yesterday awarded the Legion d’honneur, the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, by President Macron.
For it took everyone in that truly golden generation.
The last remaining survivors were, and are, treasured.
Those who have passed away to a Heavenly Shore are always remembered.
We owe our lives, and freedoms, to them, and to their families.
Our gratitude is beyond words.
So many people, just like us, never personally had the opportunities we enjoy, because they sacrificed their lives, and died, in conflict and war.
So many were so very young at the time.
In the words of Laurence Binyon:
“Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.”
