I always write a piece to mark Remembrance Sunday. I think some of my best blogs have been For some reason, this year I feel differently about the whole thing. I have and will always believe that remembering brave people who fell in the the service of Great Britain, Democracy and Freedom is one of the most important and solemn duties that falls upon us as members of a free society. But I cannot ignore the generala apathy of our society in this matter. I went up to the Ridgeway to watch the vice chairman of the Mill Hill Services Club lay a wreath on behalf of the club at the service. Vince was wearing the medals of our late President Jack Leach, who passed away earlier this year, as a tribut to Jack and his generation. About a hundred people turned out on a chilly and misty November day.
According to Google AI "The NW7 postcode district (covering Mill Hill and surrounding areas) has an estimated population of 28,645 residents based on the UK Census"
In other words, less than 1% of the population of Mill Hill turned up.It breaks my heart that so few people seem to care. For me, the service was moving and was a chance to remember my Dad, a WW2 airman. There is something wrong with our society if so few people see fit to remember those who made what we have today possible. That is all I am going to say on the matter.
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