Twenty years ago on the 13 March 1996 a sleepy little town in central Scotland became the focus of the world's news media after a shooting left a class of 5 year old children decimated. Sixteen children and their teacher were murdered by a lone gunman. This is the worse shooting ever in UK history and resulted in a change in the law so that it is now illegal to own a handgun.
In other parts of the world such atrocities continue but I am thankful to live in a country where there are no guns!
No words can convey the agony for the parents and survivors and all affected by that day.
This is a time to pause, reflect and say a prayer.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.
Extract of Laurence Binyon's poem "For the Fallen" written in the first world war.
Image courtesy of Serge Bertasius Photography at FreeDigitalPhotos.net
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