Westminster came to a stand still this morning at 11 o'clock (for the right reasons after yesterday's student demo) as the Abbey and Parliament observed a two minute silence to remember the end of WW1, a war to end all wars, except that 20 years later we were at it again.
Fred, my grandfather lied about his age and joined up to fight in WW1 for the Artillery and was in Naval Intelligence in WW2. My Dad joined up at 19 to spend his "university" years (1939-45) away from his family in Austria, Egypt, Crete and Durban.