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This is intended to be mainly about my crafting stories, as a personal record of what I do. However, I interpret crafting quite widely, not just paper crafting but other things too. I have a butterfly mind and like to change from one thing to another depending on what I feel like on a given day - knitting, crochet, cross-stitch, cards, baking and several others, including my favourite right now, parchment, both traditional skills and Groovi, very relaxing and calming to do.

I have decided to put some structure into my blog so that each day will have something of a theme.
Monday- for Mindfulness; Tuesday - Tidy Up Day; Wednesday - What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday; Thursday - Technique and Tips; Friday - Finish Off Day; Saturday - Start Something New; Sunday - Anything Goes
These themes are not hard and fast and will be changed if I feel the need.

Thursday, 6 June 2019

Thursday is for tip and techniques


I am not doing any tips today.  Having watched the very moving views of the D Day Commemorations yesterday and today, I do not feel it would be appropriate.

To watch those veterans, so determined to pay their respects, certainly brought tears to my eyes.  What they saw, and heard and experienced cannot be forgotten by them and never should be forgotten by us or by our descendents.

I am watching this morning's service right now, having had to go out part way through, and I am not ashamed to admit the tears are pouring down.  So many of those men have never spoken of what they experienced until now, and, in the last part of their lives, are facing those horrors again to pay their respects to those who were cut down in their youth next to them.

We must never forget the huge numbers of young men, sons, brothers, finances, husbands who gave their lives to ensure we could live in a world where we are free to have opinions, free to have our own beliefs.

Remember them and teach your children to understand and remember them always!

5 comments:

Roz McLellan said...

So true, Maggie.xxx

Sue C said...

We must never let them be forgotten.

Lynne Bishop said...

It certainly was very moving. X

Josephine Higgins said...

Well said. It’s so very sad xxx

linda said...

I agree with every word Margaret, I too cried unashamedly.
Linda Williams Woodland