Remember

The Menin Gate near Ypres in Belgium is a memorial to those British and Commonwealth soldiers who died in the First World War and have no known graves as their bodies were never found.  The names of 60,000 young men missing on the Battlefield are remembered here but sadly despite the vastness of the memorial arch there was not enough room for all the names of the missing - another 35,000 had to be inscribed on the stone walls of the Tyne Cot cemetery near Passchendale along with the 12,000 graves of their commrades.  It was decided that soldiers would be buried  close to where they had fallen in an identical grave without distinction rank, colour or creed.  Row upon row of identical white slabs bear the name, age, regimental badge and religious symbol of the fallen soldier and on the graves of unidentified soldiers just 'Known to God'.  These huge cemeteries containing many more graves are scattered throughout
 Belgium and France with many more joining them after the second World War including many Americans.  Another very sad place is Langemark where 45,000 German youth lie in a mass grave.  All children from our schools should be taken here for their education, so should our Leaders........'Lest we Forget'