I was brought up in a military family (my Dad served 27 years in the RAF) and then spent the first 10 years of my adult life in the RAF. When I joined the RAF in 1988 Remembrance Sunday brought tributes to those who had perished in the Falklands War just 6 years earlier.
Today the current campaign in Afghanistan was in my mind as I paid my respects in my home village of Honley. After a church service at St Mary’s we marched down to the war memorial where a father laid a wreath in memory of his son who died in Kandahar province only last year. The serviceman was only 23. Along with those who died in the Great War, the Second World war and in all the conflicts since – we will remember him.
