Since Friday I have been in Austria on business and staying with friends over that period. They have two daughters, ten and eight years old, who asked why I was wearing a poppy and why they were not to disturb me at 11.00 on Sunday morning. They understood about remembering the fallen, after all their parents also had relatives who died during the two World Wars, albeit on the "other" side. I must have explained badly as at first they thought I meant that Remembrance Day is only for the dead of the two World Wars. It was only when their father explained further and I said that 16.000 British service personnel had been killed since WWII and that the killing was still going on in Afghanistan and Iraq that they were shocked. Both of them asked why does it still happen. Neither I nor their parents had any answer.