In summarizing at the end of todays BBC Remembrance broadcast at the Cenotaph, David Dimbleby had the following to say. Very poignant and emotive indeed. You know that at moments of national remembrance like today we of course are reminded of the scale of human suffering and the pain caused by war. And to do that we repeat the numbers of those killed in conflict as though numbers alone could help us understand the scale and horror of war. It’s not easy though, perhaps it’s not even possible to mourn numbers. Too impersonal, too many faces weve never seen, too many stories weve never heard and it’s not the raw numbers that those gathered here remember nor that the families whove been bereaved by war remember. It’s one particular death, one absence from life, a son or daughter, brother or sister or friend who didnt return. Just two minutes of silence once a year seems so little to offer for everything they gave.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:22:06 +0000
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