How old?

We've been members of English heritage since the kids were small - castles make good days out for energetic boys. We've enjoyed talking them through the history too.

We still love going to old places - York, Shrewsbury, Richmond, Middleham ... - and getting a sense of time and past and future there.

Travelling to France was interesting then, I began with 5 days in Merville, with a couple of hours in Bethune. Lovely town.

 None of it older than 100years. It was flattened in WW1, as were many of the places we travelled through.

As we remember, does our remembrance extend beyond those who wear uniforms and carry guns? Do we remember the lives and communities devastated by the passage of the war? Do we remember the collateral damage?

War is very big.