Tuesday 11th November is Remembrance Day. Every year on Remembrance Day, we pause. We bow our heads. We fall silent. We lay wreaths. These moments matter, but remembrance is more than ritual. War is too devastating, too personal, to be reduced to routine.

Behind every monument lies a story. Behind every engraved name is a face, a family and a future cut short. A young soldier in the First World War wrote home: ‘Do not be anxious for me. I am in God’s hands. If I should fall, remember that I fell doing my duty and that I am not afraid.’ A week later, he died. His words echo courage, but they also echo heartbreak.