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  I find the suggestion that Remembrance Day should be consigned to history after the 2014 commemorations are over to be perfectly ridiculous. We learn from history, or at least we should do. I personally believe that all schoolchildren should be taken at some time during their education to the Thiepval Memorial, the Menin Gate and Tyne Cot Cemetery as part of the history curriculum; I don't think I know of anyone who has failed to be astonished by the sheer scale of the losses recorded and/or on display at those locations.
  
  The sacrifice of previous generations needs to be witnessed so that the coming generations understand what is at stake; the loss of one soldier in Afghanistan makes the national news these days and their loss properly mourned when the body is flown home. Given that, shouldn't future generations see the scale of the horrors of WW1? Simple facts like the loss of 29,000 men killed or wounded on one day alone (July 1st 1916), which was the then population of Dover. Hundreds of thousands of men whose bodies were never recovered. Mines which were exploded in Belgium and felt in Downing Street.
  
  The scale of the losses, the futility of warfare and the heroism of the fallen is something we should never forget.

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