A Remembrance Day Sculpture That Brought Me to Tears
For Your Tomorrow — the men who died on D-Day
Every year for Remembrance Day, there are sculptures across the UK, depicting soldiers from the two World Wars. The day honours members of the armed forces who died in the line of duty.
This year, there’s a fantastic display at Stowe Landscape Gardens in Buckinghamshire, England. I went along to see it, and found the artwork emotionally captivating and quite overwhelming.
4,000 people visited on Sunday 13 October, while I was there, and more than 30,000 people have visited in total since the art installation was opened to the public.
The 1,475 life size silhouettes of British servicemen represent each of the 1,475 soldiers, sailors and airmen under British Command, who were killed in the D-Day landing 80 years ago in 1944.
The installation, called For Your Tomorrow, was extremely poignant and moving. Not only did it bring to the fore the sheer number of men who died on D-Day to secure our freedom. But there were also framed letters written by the servicemen who died, to their families. The letters were written in case they were killed, as their final goodbyes.
The men were trying to remain jovial and upbeat. Some of the letters contained fun memories…
