Remembrance in Scouting.

This week we will be marking Armistice day and Remembrance Sunday although as with most things this year it will be done differently.

Image credits: Scout.org
There are many reasons to remember, the sacrifice that was made to defend this country such as during WW2 which my former Headmaster was apart of, in the Falklands in 1982 and so on, the impact of those conflicts and wars not least on my own family both the dead and the living, some who lived and died with the scars from it.

We remember because Scouts played an important part in it from spotting aeroplanes, taking messages, helping the injured, need, giving assistance to our communities as boys and that many scouts enlisted to serve our country under our then King.

That's why whenever I have been able I have always attended the Remembrance Sunday service.

There have always been different ways to get involved directly such as selling the Royal British Legion poppies as these cubs and scouts are doing outside a supermarket.

I've done door to door sales myself for over a ten year period enjoying the experience and helping the cause.

This year of course this will not be happening, indeed in some way beyond the remit of this blog the Royal British Legion has had to heavily reduce the act of remembrance to meet the Social Distancing guidelines and this does mean far fewer people will be at the Cenotaph's across our nation even laying wreaths and observing it in the way we normally do.

 
This year scouts will be wearing the 2020 Scouts Poppy on their uniforms or scarves to support the RBL and a range of activities that can be carried out either in meetings or at home is being planned.