We will not remember them.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will forget them. In fact let’s not pretend. We already have forgotten them in Kent. The sacrifices of our troops and citizens in WW1 and WW2 has been forgotten already. Sure on Remembrance Sunday there’s a few warms words and faded flowers. But the millions killed have been forgotten. D-Day last year was forgotten in Kent. Not one piece of activity in East Kent. And in previous years, the disgusting spectacle of the veterans having to scurry around to obtain funding from KCC, for what would most likely be their last visits to Normandy to see their pals graves. Or the Ramsgate British Legion veterans besieged by skateboarders and vandals and tuppeny food vouchers requiring Mayor Green and Kent Police to step in. Or the feeble preparations for the WW1 Centenary next year. There are no preparations – yet Flanders and Mons are remembering the British dead already – a year in advance. And only the War Graves Commission...