Debt of Honour speech at Lee Rigby memorial

Lee Rigby

A moving speech was made at a Lee Rigby memorial in Manchester yesterday (Sunday 25 May).

Lee Dargue captured the speech and described it as “amazing.”

The speech was over three minutes long and said: “Today we stand here in recognition on the anniversary of both the brutal murder of serving British Fusilier Lee Rigby and the 100 year anniversary of the great war. Each and every man, woman and child stood here today owe their freedoms, benefits and quality of life to the outstanding bravery, tenacity, patriotism and sacrifice of this great nations armed forces.

“I believe we owe a debt of honour to these brave souls who gave their all so we may flourish as a free nation under god. This debt of honour that I speak of must be repaid by ensuring that all future generations know the depth of courage displayed through adversity by the men and women who have and continue to serve in defence of our freedoms.

“Too little is understood of the tremendous courage that it takes to fix the carnage and horror of a battlefield. The next few passages are my thoughts of war.

“War is a thief. The screams of the dying, the screams of the dying and canon roar steal your ability to hear The sights of friends and comrades steers your ability to see the world through anything but tears. The cruelty and fatality of war steals a mans soul feeling him left of a former untainted love of his former man. War can steal a mans faith. Too often man asks how can god let this happen. Men start war. God keeps the souls that end within them.

“Fusilier Lee Rigby’s battlefield was a street in Woolwich. The battlefields of the soldiers of the Great War saw them shed blood beneath the plunders of the Somme to name a few. Wherever and however our soldiers are killed we must honour them with the respect they deserve.

“The disgusting murder of Lee Rigby proves that in this modern age of domestic adversity, as well as foreign conflict, our soldiers show great bravery, even to wear their uniforms in pubic.

“We have all see then the threat that is forever present from those insane ramblings from scum like those Nigerian immigrants who set in chain those terrible events from last year. They are still among us and we must be vigilant as a nation to those who would commit such terrible atrocities and acts in the name of a religion. The debt I spoke of that each and every one of us must fulfil means we must all keep the memories and valiant actions of our nations service men and women alive so that our children and our children’s children may learn what terrible sacrifices and injustices this nation has born so they may live in freedom.

“The greatest injustice our nation could evoke is to forget the terrible truths of war and the peace the war forgets.”

It is currently unclear who made the speech.