Remembrance In North Staffordshire

The Legion organises a number of events to ensure that the people of North Staffordshire have the opportunity to pay their respects to its Service men and women, past and present. These include:

• The Two Minute Silence at 11am on 11th day of the 11th month
• The Parades and Services at War Memorials in towns and villages across North Staffordshire on Remembrance Sunday
• The Festival of Remembrance at the Kings Hall Stoke-on-Trent
• The Annual Poppy Appeal

These are just a few of the ways in which the Legion helps to ensure that: 'If we are to maintain our peace and freedom, we must always remember.'

The Royal British Legion in North Staffordshire has always supported the traditional Remembrance Sunday services and the customary Two Minute Silence on that day. As the national custodian of Remembrance, the Legion also believes that when 11 November (Armistice Day) falls on days other than Sundays - on working days - Remembrance should be brought into the everyday life of the Nation on those days as well.

The revival of support for observance of this demonstrates that, despite the passing of the years and the declining number of veterans, the nation still feels strongly about Remembrance.

Remembrance transcends all boundaries. The Legion seeks a small yet important individual and collective act, a rare moment when the Nation can stand together and reflect on the price of freedom. That price is still being paid. More than 16,000 British Servicemen and women have been killed or injured on active service since 1945.

"If we are to maintain our peace and freedom, we must always remember."

The new Order of Service for Remembrance Sunday is available from CTBI Publications, phone 01733 325 002 or via www.ctbi.org.uk

• Service of Remembrance
• The Exhortation
  
   "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning. We will remember them."
  
  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -[Two Minutes Silence]- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
  
  "When you go home, tell them of us and say "For your to-morrows these gave their to-day."
  
  
   [Kohima Epitaph]
  
  The words are attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds (1875 -1958), an English Classicist, who had put them together among a collection of 12 epitaphs for World War One, in 1916
  
  "When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"