Depending on when you read this blog, there will either be or have been a two-minute silence and a wreath laying service at Leeds cenotaph on Sunday 11th November at 11.00 am. I visited last year and found it moving and meaningful. The reason of course being Remembrance Day.
Remembrance Day is a memorial day which has been observed since the end of World War I
to remember the members of the armed forces who sadly died in duty. It
falls on the 11th November, which is the date that WWI ended.
A good place to visit is the Royal Armouries to see the exhibitions: A War Within and Other Ranks.
A War Within is on until the 30th of November. Photojournalist James Arthur Allen is the man behind this photographic exhibition regarding Mental Health and the Armed forces, which highlights issues such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Other Ranks is on until March 2013 and is an exhibition at the War Museum, Royal Armouries and is a sound-based installation by Sound artist, Amie Slavin. Amie is totally blind, and has been since 1997, I think there is a message here about overcoming adversity!
Finally I thought I would share this photograph
My Great Grandfather; William Edward Stainton, who sadly died in WWI
only a month before the war ended in October 1918. He was in the Royal
Engineers, and is buried in Ypres, Belgium. Although it seems sad,
remembering the past can sometimes add meaning to our lives, as long as
we remember to live in the present!
Hope you found this interesting,
Thanks Vicky 
