ON the front page of your Worcester News today we feature the photographs of six soldiers from in and around Worcestershire who lost their lives in Afghanistan this year.

The photographs are accompanied by one simple word: Remember.

Tomorrow at 11am that is what we would like our readers to do. To spare two minutes of their time to remember in silence our local heroes.

These were young men who laid down their lives in a foreign land in the service of their country.

Their story is one that has been repeated for almost a century across the world. Tomorrow, on Remembrance Sunday, we have the opportunity as a nation to say thank you to them for their sacrifice.

Tomorrow is not a day for politics or for debating the rights and wrongs of the current conflict in Afghanistan.

It is a day for remembering people like the six brave men on our front page and many more like them; heroes who fell in Afghanistan, or Iraq, or the Falklands, or Burma, or the beaches of Normandy, or the trenches of the Somme.

Remembrance Sunday, and Armistice Day next Wednesday, were originally a way of ensuring the nation never forgot the huge loss of life suffered by this country during the First World War.

Tomorrow we still remember those who fell during what was supposed to be the war to end all wars.

But we also pay silent tribute to all our servicemen and women who have perished in the many conflicts that followed.

With the death toll in Afghanistan continuing to rise, remembrance services this year seem even more poignant than usual.

The message, however, remains the same through the decades. We will never forget them.