I was asked to make a video for a Church Service for Remembrance Day years ago, then in subsequent years for the community Remembrance Day Service.  And I did, I made what has turned into this video. This video is mostly for me. Every deployment the idea that if something happened to DH, all the world would see is that death photo that they take before they go (for those who don’t know that’s the picture in uniform of them in front of the flag.  I’m sure it has another name, but the only time you would see it is on the news, when they are killed.  So it’s always just struck me at the death photo). When I look at my kids I see my youngest son who watched some collegues of DH bring a armoured vehicle to our church playschool, while his dad’s been gone a couple months now he is simply wanting desperately the attention of the men who look like dad because to him, in that uniform, they all do.  I see my daughter who proudly carried her first wreath at the school assembly for Remembrance Day with only the vaguest idea of what it meant.  And I see my oldest son, who decided to wear his dad’s spare dogtags to school today and told me he tried really hard not to let anyone see him cry during the tribute video at that same assembly.  When it comes to things like this they have to be a little braver than your average kid, but they each love their daddy for who he is at home, not what he does at work.  DH is not just a uniform…