Remembrance Sunday

 Today is Remembrance Sunday, a day of remembering our Honoured Dead. While I agree this is important we also have to remember the civilians who also died in war, let me give an example.

While serving in Northern Ireland when I was in the British Army I was stationed in Omagh in 1998. One day in August I was visiting a computer store at the top of the main street in the town to get some parts for my PC. That day is also a day I will never forget.

The Real IRA detonated a bomb not 500 yards away in the middle of the high street. It killed 29 people, including a pregnant woman and injured over 300. It was the worst bombing by the Real IRA in the troubles.

I was unharmed, but as a serving soldier and a first aider I went to the site where it exploded. The images I saw that day still haunt me to this day.

So while we do remember the service men and women who has died for the service of there country, lets not forget the civilians who died also.

LEAST WE FORGET.