At a time in this country’s history, when some of our service boys and girls are coming home injured from Afghanistan and all too many of them paying the ultimate price, it is perhaps time for this family to recognise the sacrifice made by it’s earlier generations through two World Wars.  It appears to me that sometimes injuries and fatalities in current times sometimes do not attract the sympathy they deserves as our military is all voluntary  as apposed to conscripted.  Both WW1 & WW2 although conscription was used very many guys volunteered before being called up.  Frank Smith (WW1) who is remembered on this site was just such a guy.  In WW2 when the youngest Sackett boy  (Jack) was called up some his brothers enlisted immediately to look after him.  So nothing changes and we don’t learn?

In starting the initial research it became obvious to me there were additional areas of interest and although the website is in an early stage of development, I’m hopeful, as local history builds and family and friends around the world add their memories, it will prove of interest to a wide audience.

We are in an age of rapid communications, Facebook, Twitter, 24 hour News etc. Hopefully this website will also become in a small way a platform of East Kent memories, with the here and now compared to that past.  Our rural aspect is also continually under threat and with politicians going into politics without getting any real life skills it appears to me that any medium that can challenge their irresponsible and rash decisions that compromise our environment is beneficial and in this respect you are invited to be another voice.  The website is non political so any policy that is considered to compromise our local envirenmemt is fair game.