Thought For The Day – Tuesday 9th June 2026
Remember Those Who Care(d)
This week is Carers’ Week in the United Kingdom.
The theme is: “Building Carer Friendly Communities”.
We pay tribute to all who are cared for, and all who care.
Including inspirational young carers.
Some of those people who are cared for, and who care, are elderly.
We do not forget the wisdom, and challenges and opportunities, age brings. We seek to empathise with someone else’s life and story. We give up our seat, metaphorically, and actually, for those in need. We help, and check in on, others.
We never forget all previous generations have given us, their care for others and for ourselves.
A very important example of this came on Saturday 6th of June 2026, with the 82nd anniversary of “D(ecision)-Day” of the 6th of June 1944.
Here is a very moving message from a commemoration last Saturday from a 100-year-old veteran, Kenneth Hay, pictured above in the first picture (right) with Henry Rice (left): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c0mynz3xmmvo .
The “D-Day” Normandy, landings, also known as “Operation Neptune”, 
were the beginning of “Operation Overlord”. They marked a key turning point in the Second World War against Nazism and fascism.
On “D-Day”, people worked together from: the United Kingdom; the United States of America; Canada; France; Australia; Belgium; the Netherlands; Greece; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; and countries known now as The Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Zimbabwe.
They, like those who had served in that conflict before and afterwards, showed a courage beyond words. They landed by boat, sea, air, and parachute in Northern France.
The third photograph above was called “Taxis to Hell – and Back – Into the Jaws of Death” and was taken, on “D-Day”, by Robert F. Sargent, CPhoM, USCG.
The mission was meticulously prepared, carefully considering: the weather; exact and precise timings; geography; and external knowledge of the moment. Even the composition of the soil on landing beeches was investigated for many months beforehand. The work of the codebreakers, including Alan Turing, at Bletchley Park, provided important information and intelligence.
As we hear the song of the birds in the morning, and in the evening too, we never, ever forget, or take for granted, peace and freedom.
Something which many others in our world still do not have today.
We never, ever forget the sacrifice and suffering of others, who inhabit numerous heavenly and invisible families, communities, classrooms, and schools.
