Recollecting the happy and the sad; the good and the bad.
This year, however, they saw there was much more significance in their assembly and that they should undertake a special act of commemoration to make a proper connection with the past.
They decided, therefore, to travel to the one place that they most associated with those they felt were the most worthy of remembrance this year in particular.
A journey to a landscape, scarred by the old war and where many of their friends and family still lay buried.