On Armistice Day I was at Farnborough Rd School for the
two-minute silence at 11.00am. The pupils had made their own poppies that were
planted in ‘poppy field’ in the school grounds. Each child had written on the
petal of their poppy the name of someone in their family who had died in the
wars and conflicts since 1914. Those who could not trace a relation wrote the
name of the Unknown Soldier. I was struck by how powerful an act of Remembrance
this produced as all the children had discovered something about the loss that
had impacted on every family in the nation and it gave them something to focus
on during the silence which the kept impeccably.
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