Rememberance

Remembrance Day, sombrely dressed, those in power parade in front of cenotaphs and memorials around our land, 'lest we forget' they say, that those on the roll calls of honour gave their lives to secure our rights and freedoms. I remember that, I appreciate that, I show due respect, but does the government? Whilst ministers sanctimoniously bow their heads in a minutes silence they and their minions ruthlessly disrespect the war dead by systematically eroding the rights and freedoms the government tell us they died to create.