Southport Remembers
Photographs by Patrick Trollope

ON Sunday, 9 November 2008, Southport held its Remembrance Service at the Cenotaph, on Lord Street. Despite the weather, the
event went well, with a large turn out. Some of the participants were recently in action in Afghanistan and in Iraq, which brought it home to people that it was not just past wars that this yearly event helps us to remember. "It is good to see the young faces taking part this year. Often people say that this event glorifies war, but how does remembering the dead, who gave their lives for our freedom do that? It is a day we remember the horror of war and the people who laid down their lives to keep us safe in all wars, past and present.  We must keep this event going past our generation and into the future generations." an 82-year-old ex-soldier told me. These are a few photographs from the event.

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