Why Remembrance is Important (By Faith, Year 7)

By Faith, Year 7, Jill Dando News Reporter at Clevedon School

At Clevedon School, Somerset, in March we held a remembrance day next to our willow tree in the centre of the school, in collaboration with the Holocaust Memorial Trust.

Remembrance is important because it is a time when we are all able to come together to remember the sacrifice of the souls that have left this world – in the Blitz, the nuclear bombings, and shootings on battlefields.

It is also a way to remember those caught up in the conflict, such as people sent to concentration camps or ordinary individuals caught up in the blood and hate of war.

We do not often get an opportunity to grieve with others, so we take this moment to try to understand the sorrow as we grieve and remember the ones we have lost.

These might be people we have never met – such as grandparents and great-grandparents.

This time of remembrance is not just for the fallen; it is also for those who still live with the guilt of not being able to save their comrades, or who carry the trauma of being a refugee who had to leave their parents, or those who have heard the bombs going off.

We need to help these people by showing our respect, and by showing that we care and understand.

So we hold remembrance services to do so. This is why remembrance is important.

Faith is the latest in hundreds of young people trained up to be Jill Dando News reporters in their school's Jill Dando newsrooms, modelled on newspaper and TV newsrooms across the world but done in the kind, positive and brilliant style former bBC journalist Jill Dando.

The Good News Post and Jill Dando News have been working in schools since 2011 and will now turn into a charity in the weeks to come.