[garinda]

I'd like to stress again just how important my mum, and many other people, view our war memorials.

Growing up without a dad, the War Memorial in Oswaldtwistle was seen as her dad's grave. The only place she felt she could be close to the the father who although he was excited about her birth, never got the chance to see her. My Nan could never talk about him much, even to his two grandsons, my brother and myself, even decades after, as she still found it too raw.

I'm proud of my mum's actions yesterday.

She'd have done the same thing if she'd seen an advertisment plonked on anyone else's grave, up the church yard.