We must remember the terrible cost of war — and bolster our defences to prevent another

“You will hear of wars, and rumours of wars," wrote Matthew in his Gospel two thousand years ago. And very sadly he has been proven right.The great hope of the First World War was it would indeed be the war to end. After the slaughter on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, there was a determination to make it so. Today, it is hard to imagine the tens and hundreds of thousands of young men and women who were prepared to risk and lose their lives for our Nation. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The nearest we have got to visualising that slaughter in recent times was the installation of 888,246 red poppies in the Moat of the Tower of London in 2014. Each one of those poppies represented a life lost and a family shattered. ...

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