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I had intended to write about the memories of spending Remembrance Day with my father and four other brothers - all of us ex-servicemen - in the local British Legion but in view of the increasing number of deaths of Our Soldiers in illegal wars, it did not just seem right.

Before you read on, please watch and listen to the video above.  I personally think it is one of the most moving songs I have ever heard about the horror of war.

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month was when the Armistice was signed on the 11th of November 1918.  The guns on the Western Front finally fell silent, the meat grinder of death stopped and the War to End all Wars was over or so we thought then.

And it was on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month every year that we did actually remember our fallen - but times change and the rotten politicians decided that we would now remember Our Fallen on the 2nd Sunday in November - bit inconvenient for the Country to remember during the working week.  Personally, I hope that one day, the BNP revert to the 11th of November, no matter what day it falls on. 

But today I will be on no parade, I will not be in The Legion.  I will not watch on TV an unelected Prime Minister and the leaders of the other political parties pretend a grief they do not feel - their hands as red as the Poppies they will be shamefully wearing. 

For they and they alone are responsible for the new names going up on the Memorial Boards of Legion Clubs across the Country and I hate them and wish I had it in my power to bring them to justice for what they have done.

And we have the Royal British Legion saying the poppy is for those people who have given their lives for a greater cause and what is that cause now?  An Oil Pipeline for the New World Order?

“The last thing a poppy is, is a political symbol, that is a point we are arguing with the British National Party at the moment which is using the poppy as a political symbol.

“It is a cross-community symbol of remembrance and not a political symbol in any way.”

But the Legion is wrong.  The Poppy is a political symbol now.  Because it is only the British National Party that would stop wars or rather British Wars at least.  There would be no medals on our future soldiers except Good Conduct and Long Service Medals because we do not believe that Our Soldiers should be deployed as mercenaries for Global Business.
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Now whilst you are listening to the Last Post, please think about the families of our Dead and Wounded Servicemen and our ex-servicemen living on the streets or even in caves and vow that you will do everything you can to end the war that keeps adding names to Cenotaphs around Our Country.

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