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  Most of us with parents who served, or even just lived through, those years will probably have some horrible stories to tell, just looking at my great grandfathers WW1 medals in their frame above this computer reminds me of a few My fathers are being framed at the moment).
  
  The thought that remembering the fallen is a concept "too remote for them to comprehend" is a terrible indictment on the education, and upbringing, of the next generation. If we want them to grow up with any pride in their home country and a desire to work for a better tomorrow then they need to learn from the past. My own children take great delight in playing around the old pill boxes on the Heights and in the moats but they also know what they were built for. The knowledge does not stop them relaxing and enjoying themselves, any more than knowing what went on in the Colosseum would prevent my enjoyment of a visit.
  
  For many families the knowledge that their forefathers are remembered as more than just a statistic attached to a stone pillar would have great resonance.
  
  Dover does need some ambitious thinking but we also have to begin with what we have and that starts with an enormously vital place in the nations history.

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