Remembering the war dead

Remembrance Sunday, or Armistice Day, 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th month (1918), is the day we will and always should remember the 65 million WWI dead.

The horror of that suddenly-modern warfare is quite often too horrific to put into words, the killing rate was approximately 5,600 men per day.

In Britain alone, 743,000 men were slaughtered in those four bloody years (a further 150,000 died of Spanish Influenza during a horrific pandemic that killed 25-50 million worldwide)- and several thousand men from various nationalities were killed on the very last day of WWI.

Of course, many other brutal wars, campaigns and conflicts have scarred humanity since, even today.

Lest we forget...