We remembered in our West Sussex town yesterday, along with every other town and village in the country. Evidently the largest ever contingent on parade this year, mainly of organised youth movements, from Beavers through to the various military cadet forces.
Once again though the timing of the two minutes silence seemed to take place simply when it was reached in the order of the service rather than being exactly at eleven o'clock, so that the church clock (recently overhauled and now keeping very good time) chimed at at the end and not the beginning of the silence. Was this intentional? No-one explained, but to me (bred on many time hacks and much synchronising of watches) it grated.
With that one proviso, it was a moving experience that involved the young and the old, the high and the low. We are an undemonstrative people on the whole, but when we do feel moved to show our feelings en masse it is all the more meaningful.
Finally, we used to have a Remembrance sticky put up here at this time of year by PPRuNe Pop. Whatever happened to it, mods, or to Pop for that matter?