Remembrance Day

28 November 2020

In 1918, the grim reality of war - hardship, hunger, suffering and death - was at its peak. 65 million families waited in desperation, praying that their children would come home again. 65 million soldiers lay in trenches, numb from both cold and grief. Finally, on the 11th of November, a signature was signed in a railway carriage in the middle of a forest in France, bringing peace to the world.

On the 11th of November of every year since, we remember the men and women who died, not just in World War 1 but in any war, from any year. We remember those buried in Flander's Field, the beauty of the red poppies growing above them starkly contrasting the horror of their deaths. We remember every man and every woman, every soldier, doctor and worker, who gave up their lives and futures to improve our own.

Mari-Elena Arutyunova