Woke this morning feeling peaceful and grateful and then I remembered what date it is

I get to feel like this because of people like this

I know it’s Hollywood but I don’t know if you have seen it but I think it was the opening scenes of “Saving Private Ryan” that came close to giving me the tiniest inkling of what it was like and I know thats insulting for the people who lived it and sacrificed for us

But I was dumbstruck by those scenes and I know it doesn’t even come close to the terror those people must have felt and went through

I want to write Men but in reality they were boys

My Uncle lied about his age to sign up and within weeks (at 17) was flown to Canada for Training on how to fly a Lancaster Bomber and flew night and day light raids over Germany

It was his dream to go into the RAF my Mum told me and after the war when he was offered to stay in he declined

He’d seen enough and never ever spoke about what he lived through but must have been living through it every day in his head

I absolutely loved him. He was one of the kindest most loving human beings in my life but sadly died far to young of cancer

He was my first experience of death and I was devastated for his loss and today I am honouring all the Men and Boys who sacrificed so much so I get to experience so much

Thank You 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Let’s not forget them that came before so we can experience so much abundance today and never forget to be grateful everyday 🙏🏻