Remembrance Sunday 09 11 25
Today the second Sunday of November we observe the Remembrance Sunday being the Sunday nearest to Remembrance Day on the 11th November the anniversary of the end of the hostilities of the First World War at 11 a.m. in 1918. This year marks the 80th anniversary of World War II.
Remembrance Sunday gives us an opportunity to pay our respects to all those brave soldiers who have laid their life for the safety and security of our nation in the First World War and we also take this opportunity to remember and recognize all the soldiers who have laid down their lives in various wars.
It is a quite perplexing, that in such a beautiful world, we have this dreadful reality of war. We have to struggle with this reality and have to live with this reality of war. However, we salute all the soldiers who courageously and with character come forward to protect their nations.
We also realise that soldiers are not just merely for war but the amazing skills they offer our society by doing variety of things to restore peace and order, in saving lives during natural disasters and all other support.
Science and technology has opened up for us a new world of advancement in understanding of science, medicine and communication but sadly it has also made life more dangerous as wars are now fought more fiercely and more dangerously and wars have to be fought with unknown and unseen enemies.
On this remembrance Sunday we have to remind ourselves that the value of the freedom that we cherish. People can take it for granted. We would not be living a life of freedom if not for those thousands of brave soldiers who endured such a lot of trouble, leaving their families and friends and fought battles in most difficult circumstances.
There were many people who suffered post traumatic stress and died in asylums and we remember them today.
Jesus said there is no love greater than the love when one gives up their lives for the sake of their friends.
The words of Paul gives us comfort that death is not the end their sacrifices and good deeds are not wasted.
The Kohima Epitaph:
When you go home
tell them of us and say,
for your tomorrow
we gave our today.