My son is 7. His class have been learning about Remembrance and he came home with a paper poppy and a lot of questions. Most I could answer. Then he asked, 'Did our family fight?' and I realised I didn't know.
My grandfather was from Ghana. I have a feeling he or his brothers may have served, as many West African men did, but nobody in the family ever talked about it and I never asked.
Has anyone gone looking for this kind of history? And how do you talk to young kids about war without frightening them?