Remembrance day is remembering those who died for their country, their countrymen/women, or a principle important to them. Remembrance day is remembering the horror and futility of war. Remembrance day is a time for trying not to let it happen again. One of my school friends died in the Gulf; I'm not old enough to remember much about Vietnam, or World Wars I + II at all.

Remembrance day is not about the glory of war, or potting huns, or wait until you see the whites of their eyes before you shoot [yes, I've heard them all] - it is a time for pride in those who hung on until death took them, and shame for those and ourselves who let it happen.