VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and that your loved ones are happy and healthy this Remembrance Sunday. This week I’d like to draw your attention to our armed services and their families. Romans 13:4 For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. … Continue reading Remembrance Sunday 2023
BY ROGER WATSON I made my first visit to the National Armed Forces Memorial at the Arboretum in Staffordshire this week. The memorial, opened in 2001 and run by The Royal British Legion but funded by an independent charity, exists to commemorate members of the armed forces who have died since 1948. Since that date there have been over 16,000 deaths in over 50 conflicts … Continue reading The National Memorial Arboretum
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You and your loved ones are well. I do not feel that I need to add to the much-publicised Remembrance Day messages, which are ubiquitous this year one hundred years on from WW1 and Armistice. Please at 11 a.m. take some time to ponder. The Armistice of Compiègne from the place where it was signed, … Continue reading Remembrance Sunday 2018
BY JACK KENNAUGH Those who wear white poppies are cowards. They have every right to choose to wear that symbol. But they are cowards none the less. They have chosen to ignore the warnings of history and tint the past through their own warped glass. Imagine being at the Somme, Ypres, or Passchendaele. People make flippant remarks about Hell on Earth. But it existed 100 … Continue reading White Poppy Cowards
