Standing outside our house putting up bunting on Friday, May 8, a couple, probably in their late 30s/early 40s walked past and we smiled and exchanged ’good mornings’. This was fine.

A few moments after they had passed my wife said to me that she was sure she heard the woman say: “I don’t know why they bother”.

I wish I had heard this shameful remark! The shear ignorance that this portrays, illustrates the poverty in the appreciation of this country’s history.

Post-war parenting and post-war teaching in the latter part of the 20th Century are to blame for this ignorance and lack of understanding of the sacrifices made by those who lived, fought and died in the two horrendous World Wars of the last century.

I am happy that so many of us still do remember!

Roger Barbee

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