[Ozzy the dog]

I watched the Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall last night on BBC One which was quite moving. The Albert Hall is the most fitting place for such an event and the emotion on the audience's faces reflected the importance of the event.

My Dad served in the Navy and I remember him saying he had a flight in a Lancaster Bomber just after WWII and couldn't comprehend how the crews had the courage to climb into those cramped things to fly a mission knowing what they had to do and they might only have a few hours to live.

It is good to remember what men and women have done in the past but it is near impossible to truly imagine just how much they did to earn that remembrance.