H2:  A veteran said recently that he wonders if the sacrifice was worth it when he looks at Britain today.
It was a painful honesty — not ungrateful, just tired of seeing the world forget the gentleness that peace was meant to protect.

Remembrance is not only about silence at eleven.
It is about the choices we make after — the fairness, the kindness, the courage to be better custodians of what they saved.

And for those who never spoke — the horses, dogs, pigeons, and all the animals taken from home to serve in a human war — remembrance belongs to them too.
My grandmother could never watch War Horse. Her favourite horse had been taken by the war effort.
Some griefs are handed down so quietly that they become part of our conscience.

Perhaps remembrance is not a looking back at all, but a listening forward —
to what they would want us to become.