(Edited) ...it was mothers who stood out on the steps of St. Paul's, at today's service commemorating the end of UK's involvement in the Afghan War...some wearing blood-red knitted poppies to raise money for military charities that give ongoing care for the wounded. Whatever views one holds as to the rights or wrongs of such involvement, the stark reality is, that 453 British souls were lost, along with an unrecorded number of Afghanistans', and as many families...wives, husbands, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, friends, left to deal, alone, with the aftermath. At the very least...a prayer for them?