Why do we still have Remembrance Sunday? (200 words minimum for best answer)?

Answer 1

If you use OUR 200 words, that's plagiarism. I highly suspect YOU are supposed to write your own 200 words on this subject! Please don't cheat and steal ours!

Answer 2

It's so we don't forget the brave men and women who sacrificed their lives so that we could be free. My father was one of them. I hope it's not too much effort to remember these wonderful people. Not many today would do what they did, without complaining, just out of a sense of duty to their country and the knowledge that they were fighting to keep the world free of tyranny. It's only right that one day a year should be dedicated to their memory.

My father's story is that he was trained during World War II in the newly formed Commando's. However, as he spoke fluent German and French, he was chosen to be a 'spy' and parachute into Occupied France shortly before D-Day to meet up with the Maquis and sabotage railway lines to restrict German troop movements. Unfortunately when he landed he bumped into a German Soldier on night guard and they shot each other. The German was killed but father got a rifle bullet through his upper chest which penetrated a lung. The French got him to the Swiss border and over to neutral territory and he was operated on in Basle in Switzerland where he lost half a lung. Eventually he was re-patriated and spent time in London interogating German prisoners. Sadly he developed tuberculosis in his lungs (London was very polluted with smoke and fog in those days) which invalided him out of service and we moved North. Gradually his condition deteriorated and eventually he died from his wound and the TB in 1957 aged just 40. I was ten years old at the time and he left me,my sister and mother behind. Because his war work was secret we were not able to obtain benefit and God only knows what a struggle my mother had to bring us up. But she did and both my sister and me had very successful careers. I still have pictures of Dad in his uniform and to think what he sacrificed, along with thousands of others, fills me with pride at his exploits. People like him should never be forgotten. There were thousands, millions of others who have died in wars. Their sacrifice should never be decried or belittled. They gave their all, their lives for people like you and me. God Bless them all.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning .....
We Shall Remember Them.