'The worst thing is the sheer waste. All those young lives lost. All innocent. All those civilians killed too. And for what? A line moved on a map?' Photo: by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

‘I am standing in a trench and the water is up to the lace holes of my boots.’

One to remember: Tony D’Souza’s Thought for the Week

‘I am standing in a trench and the water is up to the lace holes of my boots.’

by Tony D’Souza 11th November 2022

Remembrance Sunday will be observed all over the UK in some form this week. It commemorates the moment the guns fell silent in 1918. The ‘great war’ was supposed to be ‘the war to end all wars’.