Yesterday was remembrance Sunday and as usual the three churches and the girls School met at the war memorial to lay wreaths and say a few words. For the first time, I found myself saying a few words. People had not come with their glasses so I was asked to read, "They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old"etc etc.
I find that these events mean more to me than the same thing in Dunfermline. It is for me a fixed point in the year and I am reminded that another year has passed.
It also makes me look back on my own family and I have things to be thankful for. All of the members of my family survived the first and second world wars, or else I would not have been born. Thousands of lives were lost in these conflicts.
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