Recalling the fallen

Today is Remembrance Sunday. It commemorates the end of hostilities in the First World War.At the 11^th hour of the 11^th day of the 11^th month of the year 1918, an armistice was declared putting an end to the Great War that had claimed the lives of 9 million service men on its battle fields.In Britain, red poppies are traditionally laid at the tombs and on monuments to the war dead.
Mgr. Peter Fleetwood is a parish priest in Liverpool, England. He says he “very much respects the idea that we should keep their memory.
He also adds, with soldiers in active service in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is an “extra relevance in remembering the dead of military campaigns.” Listen