What did they die for

Subject: What did they die for.

Under the grey rain laden sky the people gather around the cenotaph and up Whitehall waiting for the chime of Big Ben to strike 11. The nations from across the globe which emphasise the multicultural nature of the fallen who died defeating fascism with only a sprinkling of white faces amongst a sea of black faces symbolising the disparity of peoples who came together to fight the scourge of fascism. It’s a mix which also symbolises the mental resolve to find a way of maintaining our humanity towards each other.
It’s a sad qualification to that resolve that many of these heads of nation have much to answer for in the way they stimulate and control their own citizens and in this I include our own. The government of Clement Attlee was the first and possibly the last who genially had the interests of all their people at heart when the elitism was cast aside for a moment in an effort to build a country which more representative of all its people but sadly were not won over in succeeding governments to complete the task.

Today at least acknowledges the ordinary men and women who make up the country as they march, or are pushed in their wheelchairs to lay their wreath. The King and the various dignitaries have retired into the stately rooms to sip their sherry, and  are still an emotional mile away from their people, their lives untouched by inflation or food banks, they talk the talk but don’t walk the walk and as the disharmony grows in the populous as a whole will simply pull back into their gated property until they see what’s left of the country these men who we celebrate today died for.