We have a long-held and understanding that is deeply sympathetic of problems raised by Simon Jenkins (Too much remembering causes wars. It’s time and energy to your investment twentieth century, 9 November).

Today however, my experience of conducting annual services of remembrance for over 40 years has left me with other responses. I came across that after numerous such solutions, once we went along to the Royal British Legion club, the women and men who’d individual connection with war and terrors of war had been constantly happy to listen to me talk the message which our recalling is a legitimate task, also for anyone can’t actually keep in mind for their age. The younger still remember just exactly how their parents and grandparents felt due to this.

The much deeper problem is it our determination to secure peace as their lasting memorial that we need to salute the sacrifice of the fallen and injured which so shaped the 20th and 21st centuries by making. At such solutions, we find politicians of various events side that is standing side. We find leaders of when competing churches leading solutions together. We find Jewish and Asian and Caribbean individuals who can relate to the last and share with us the long term. This respect that is mutual an indication of hope, maybe maybe not war, and we also will find in it renewal for the future eyesight. “Those whom cannot keep in mind the past are condemned to duplicate it.” George Santayana (1863-1952).Prebendary Neil RichardsonBraintree, Essex

Simon Jenkins’ excellent article takes aim possibly at slightly the target that is wrong. Individuals need history as people require memory. But where Simon is resoundingly appropriate is in condemning simplistic, partisan variations of history, which may have motivated physical physical physical violence from Northern Ireland to Myanmar. The absolute most egregious, catastrophic instance, as Simon’s Dunkirk instance programs, could be the bellicose anti-European distortion associated with the 2nd world war – the Blitz, “we fought alone”, the mirage associated with the world that is anglophone. The absolute most apparent exemplory instance of a nationalistic, ignorant, isolationist misinterpretation of our twentieth century history had been the misconception that determined the referendum on Brexit.Kenneth MorganLong Hanborough, Oxfordshire

Re Simon Jenkins’ one line regarding the Scottish freedom problem being “congeries of previous slights and indignities”, possibly he should think on the fact that the English are dragging Scotland out from the EU against the clear desires of 62% associated with the country which was Scotland, offering the Scots an atmosphere they are a puppet state of England. If England drags Scotland (and north Ireland) out from the EU, therefore the British breaks up as a result that is direct please think on this current reputation for previous slights and indignities which was straight brought on by the English perhaps maybe not understanding it was a really real trampling associated with Scottish population’s desires to stay part of a collective European countries. Numerous in Northern Ireland, where there was clearly a 56% stay vote, have the way that is same. Please stop article 50 now and just wish the 27 will absolve you. Thomas Roy Waller Fyvie, Aberdeenshire

It will be an indicator of our country’s readiness and compassion if 11 November will be a Remembrance Day for the life lost by all nations in war.

Throughout the second globe war, worldwide an estimated 80 million individuals, including 50 million civilians, died, within the combat or from war-related diseases and famine. We suffered significantly more than 450,000 fatalities while about six million Germans or over to 25 million Russians passed away. By recognising and remembering that folks of all of the countries suffer, just as much or maybe more than ourselves, we possibly may fight for peace a little harder the very next time our leaders reveal that people have actually enemies in certain far-off land.Derek HeptinstallWestgate-on-Sea, Kent

Simon Jenkins appears to forget that there were other wars since those against Germany. My son is a serving soldier. He knows individuals who have died on active solution and takes Remembrance Day extremely really. He could be not merely recalling those that passed away a very long time ago, but those who passed away really recently. He has got no intention of dying for his nation about to lose his life because his country has sent him to fight, it would mean something to know that his country would remember him if he can help it, but has said that if he found himself. If you will find people willing to risk their everyday lives since the government that is british told them it is exactly what their nation needs, it generally does not be seemingly asking a whole lot for Simon Jenkins to pay two mins in silence to respect the sacrifice of the whom died.Tom WilliamsTwickenham, Middlesex

My dad ended up being killed regarding the first time associated with kamikaze assaults at Penang in 1945. My mom bought a Datsun automobile in 1970 and from that on we decided to forget and look to the future day. In order Simon Jenkins implies, let’s change Remembrance Day 2018 to each day of forgetting and going WalkerWalton-on-Thames that is on.Clive

Simon Jenkins without doubt has a spot about an obsession utilizing the 2nd globe war and Nazis to the exclusion of other history – that of colonialism and imperial wars for instance. It really is scarcely time, however, to forget exactly about the 2nd globe war. My father that is late fought Monte Cassino in 1944 and saw a few of their comrades die here. A lifelong socialist, he’d invariably wear a poppy on Remembrance Sunday. He ended up beingn’t thinking about Tory flag-waving. His concern, as when he would be to be discovered on Anti-Nazi League protests in the old age, would be to be sure that the commercial scale of murder represented by the Holocaust ended up being both never ever forgotten rather than repeated.Keith FlettLondon

Forgetting wars that are past to Brexit. The success that is biggest of this EU happens to be no wars between user states, yet those wars that took place before its development are incredibly totally forgotten these people were hardly mentioned when you look at the Brexit campaigns.Joseph HanlonLondon

Visiting the Bomber Command memorial in London, we chanced upon an inscription that is particularly poignant a mainstream little wood cross surmounted by way of a red poppy: “Remembering our daddy, whom left their gorgeous area house to provide into the RAF.” 12 months of death had been 1943. The area? Trinidad. By opportunity, a team of young Germans had been nearby with whom we attempted to mention my thoughts therefore the irony of much black colored experience that is british the next 50 years. I will wear red with white and courageous any ignorant jingoism.Rev Paul NewmanWinchester