The pandemic caused us to mark VE and VJ Days virtually and now eight months in to the restrictions on social distancing, to reflect national and local guidance, we have been required to mark Rye Remembrance 2020 in a virtual way - though we had hoped to mount the usual public ceremony both in St Mary's Rye and around the town memorial as in previous years.
This year would have been another milestone as it marks the 100th anniversary of the unveiling of the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, the national focus for Remembrance. Our video has been compiled in Rye to mark Remembrance 2020 - a year most of us will never forget.
Although our thoughts at this time are with the fallen of the world wars, and in all the campaigns since, this year, with so many suffering and dying from Covid-19, we all have wider reasons to remember those who are no longer with us.
Therefore in these troubled times, on behalf of all those grieving or affected by conflict and strife, we say “We Will Remember Them”
