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    It's been an eventful day but before we leave London we record our thoughts on Remembrance now and what we plan to do in the future to make sure young people dont forget.
    We were lucky enough to be invited to the Westminster Abbey Remembrance Service to represent young people in the UK for the passing of the generation. The Queen and Gordon Brown also attended and watched as two of our reporters laid the wreath for the que
    As this year saw the passing of the last WW1 veterans, including Harry Patch, we asked visitors to the Imperial War Museum what impact this has had on how and why people remember.
    Find out what our best bits were....
    We visited the CWGC Head Quarters in Arras to find out more about the work they do to maintain all the CWGC cemetaries around the world.
    Rob tells us how members of his family fought for the Norfolk Reginment during the First World War.
    Its the final day of our trip and we reflect on what we have seen and learned and whether our thoughts on Remembrance have changed.
    After visiting all the different memorials, cemeteries and Remembrance ceremonies, we hold our own service, designed by us, to remember those who died.
    We visited the busy and popular Theipval memorial commemorating those killed during the battle of the Somme. We found it very different from some of the other sites we have visited. See what you think...
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    12th Nov 08 09:46
    We decided that we would travel back into Belgium to St Symphorien cemetery near Mons for the 11am commemoration. St Symphorien is an unusual cemetery in that it was built by the Germans early in the ...
    11th Nov 08 09:13

    Today we met Nigel Stevens who works for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at their offices in Arras. He took us behind the scenes to see how the CWGC maintain the cemeteries in their care. The...
    10th Nov 08 11:02

    We headed north towards Ypres this morning and started our day at Tyne Cot cemetery for the Remembrance Sunday 11 o'clock silence. We had a bit of an odd experience because we were filmed doing it f...

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