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Originally Posted by Doug
Sod the council, get out on the streets and remember those that went abroad and never returned home, remember those that did come home and suffered many years from the effect of that conflict, remember the widows, wives, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers that give so much…….Many others also fought from across East Lancashire, Yorkshire and further north as well as those who from home who fought with other Regiments and services. Sod HBC……..they’ve yet to give anything back.
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It concerns me that we (through the generations) are forgetting slowly those that gave so much. I am told that Accrington was the smallest town to provide a full batalion. I think the efforts put in 3 years ago on Church Street were the beginnings of not just remembering our history, but considering what went through the minds of those so young (and not so)that faced impending mutilation, horror, death; and the forgotten victims, those loved ones left behind, mothers, girlfriends, dads, people we often forget even when commemoration time comes around..
I remember the old bloke next door to my gran who was used as Jap forced labour on the Kwai (WW2) for 3 years. He never got over it despite living to an old age.