Remembrance Service - November 13, 2011
- 10:30am
The Animals’ War Memorial, Park Lane, London.
(Nearest tube is Marble Arch)
Officiant: Revd. George Ochola
I made it abundantly clear at the Animals War Memorial last
Remembrance Sunday that it would be the last occasion that I would be
leading the service, and that I was handing over the reigns - so to
speak – to dear Fr George O’Cola of Watford who had so kindly assisted
me at the morning services on the two years previous! Consequently, that
is how it still rests; and now that my own parish is suddenly without a
Vicar I have been invited to officiate locally on this coming
Remembrance Sunday morning when – I can assure you! – a small red wreath
will be placed for the animals here, following the two minutes silence
at our local war memorial.
However - though officiating in my parish here - I would simply add that
I’ll be very mindful of the many who will have ‘turned up ‘out of the
blue’ again at London for the 10.30am Service; led by George O’Chola,
and of dear Cynthia O’Neil – the instigator of this annual event -
giving her usual opening words of welcome! One thing alone is vital: the
animal victims of war must never be excluded from that poignant national
two minutes of silence at their very own national memorial in London!
Yes, and humans who turn up for it ( 65 of them last year; and on a wet
day too! ) must never be let down.
As for both humans and animals – who died that we may live! – how
utterly appalling ‘to their memory’ that whereas they were forced to
‘give their all’ so that the tentacles of a growing foreign dictatorship
would be broken – that, now, our three leading political parties have
been welcoming the growing tentacles of a largely non elected
bureaucratic Brussels to usurp us!
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