Final Video 11 minutes, or there about!
warriors walk final film cut [HQ]
The cards will all come down today though my inner self would like to see them remain in situ they have done their job, fantastically, the comments from the public, the press and the Royal British Legion have been more than enough to leave me lingering between humility and embarassment.
I have no doubt that from today, the number of poppies on people lapels will slowly start to diminish as will, though not entirely, the strength of their emotions regarding the the sheer weight of loss that this country burdens in relation to our lost heroes, the grieving for the families will go on in the background as the country settles back into their own lives and personal issues.
Sad though it is it is a fact that there are few in this great country of around 70 million people who do not live their lives without one problem or another, each one battling their own issues in modern day stressful lives. while I move on from one awareness programme to the next I know that I will have to work as hard to tear people away from their perception that their problems are the biggest and most important in the world, how fickle, selfish and inhumane man can be when they who suffer the most are ignored as individuals get back to their own job, the pursuit of personal gain, of personal growth, a journey that is, for the most more than many deserve or will ever achieve, while their dreams. of bigger homes, of a fatter bank ballance, of a new car, of promotion, for sure many will never achieve their dreams for dreams are borne of hard work and sacrifice.
some people are never satisfied, and never will be, destined instead to grow only toward a bitter and lonely old age while for some, even a sleeping bag would be the best christmas present in the world.
I can not leave the plight either of veterans or of our lost heroes behind for that is a part of me, my loss of friends and my own post war experiences make it so, for the now however I must leave that fight of recognition to the organisations whose resources are geared to that job knowing that I will return to that fight next year, for the now my attentions turn toward the veterans who return and end up in a different category of statistics, that of mental illness, of alcoholism and drug dependancy, most of all, the homeless;
3 years ago I produced 1000 minature homeless veterans borne of the statistical quote of marketing which suggested that ''On any given night there are 1000 veterans homeless.''
Three years on the quote for today is ''one in four homeless people are veterans.'' although there are no difinitive figures for this countries homeless a provisional search suggested a figure of more than 65,000 homeless people in the uk, to me that represents around 15,000 + homeless veterans, almost as many as have been killed since the cease of hostilities in 1945 which is around 16,000.
watch this space.
