Each year we dedicate two minutes of silence to commemorate Armistice Day which was on the eleventh of November, 1918.
After four years of violence, destruction and death the armistice was signed by the allies on the elevenths of November 1918 and the brutality and bloodshed of this cruel war of attrition was put to an end.
The signing brought a ceasefire and on that very day the fighting on the Western Front had come to an end - but also hope: hope that sons, brothers, fathers and friends would return home to family, to peace, rest and sanctuary from the onslaught of cruelty that the war brought.
However, the armistice was also a reminder: a reminder of the people lost to the war, those who were killed and those who suffered.
Every year we uphold the tradition of two minutes of silence and this tradition isn't to celebrate that we won the war or that we came out victorious, it is to commemorate and remember the sacrifices made.
Remembrance day serves as a reminder of the consequences of war and all the lives lost in conflict and warfare, not only in world war one, but all over the world - all the many lives lost to senseless violence.
As a society, we must learn from the mistakes of the past and if there is anything we should take from Remembrance day it is that war knows no boundary - war is not discriminate in whose life it takes, what damage it causes and the dehumanization of people, of innocents.
To honour the fallen, the lives lost, the soldiers and so on we remember and to remember is to ensure such tragedy does not happen again.
Today we see countless wars, conflicts and genocides and during those two minutes of silence think of not only the past, of the people who died in previous wars, but also of the present, of the people who died and are dying.
If you would like to take action, to help those who are living in ruin, wreckage and warzones you can donate to charities, write to your MP, sign petitions for ceasefires.
Empathy is becoming rarer everyday and we need it now more than ever.
