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Do this is remembrance of me

Message   13 November 2016 A message for Remembrance Sunday - What is Remembrance about?  My English thesaurus offers the following concerning the word Remembrance.   Recollection, reminiscence, retrospection, keepsake, consideration, regard and thought among others.   The words suggest a “gathering in” of that which we want to hold dear to.   The word “Remember” bears echoes of Re-membering, a re-joining to a collective sense of our community.    By the act of re-membering someone or something, we consciously bring that person or event within the walls of our community.   We keep it safe, as we would a keepsake.   War takes people from the experiences of an ordinary life into extra- ordinary situations and experience.   Many of these experiences are too horrific to speak about openly.   Witnesses to man’s seeming insatiable desire to inflict suffering on each other often need help to re-join so called “Normal Society”.   As individuals, we aim to re-member them into our com