On the evening of 5th June we stood still in Bayeux Cathedral for the fallen of the Battle of Normandy, for those who returned bearing the scars of war, those who mourned, and all who are victims of war.
“I’ll Walk with God,” Webster and Brodszky, British Army Band Tidworth, conducted by Captain Peter Brydon
As well as singing, I also drew up the Order of Service. Peace was a major theme. For me, the reading by Dietrich Bonhöffer stood out: he wrote the remembrance is “seeing that which is past, and which we remember today, with all its terrors and all its godlessness, and yet not being afraid, but hearing the preaching of peace.”