I was working on my own laying a patio, and listening to the service on radio 4, I had a 2 minutes silence. The difference between the war remembered on armistice day and wars now are that we lost a couple of million soldiers, thats worth remembering in my opinion, wars will never be fought that way again. Is Afghanistan really a war when we look at it in the horrifying terms of ww1 or ww2? Not really in my book, its an occupation and to be frank we should be out of there as if we were, our soldiers would not be dying. Are we safer for them dying? not sure about that. But this year there are posters all over the place stating that we should give rememberance(and money)for the forces in Afghanistan etc. I find that troubling, whilst I feel for anyone who lost family on both sides in Afghanistan should we be there? And why are we forced to give in aid of the soldiers in this conflict when it seems to be of no benefit to us for them to be there?