Today I have with me my Grandmother’s brother’s Bible that he was issued when he joined the Royal Navy in the Second World War. This week at a prayer meeting one of our members read to us from a Bible his father received in 1918 as a prisoner-of-war in England. Today things are very different than past Remembrance Day ceremonies. Covid-19 has affected every aspect of our lives – separating us from friends and family. People have not been able to be with loved ones as they passed on from this life to the next one. People are dying. We hear of outbreaks in different cities and other places where our family is and we worry and we wonder. I have a daughter on the mainland working with vulnerable people and so we follow reports closely. 1914-1918 and 1939-44 there was a large sense of worry and loss and grief and fear that gripped our world, our country, and even our valley here more than 100 years ago and more than 75 years ago in the world wars. Today we are standing outside in the