A long 16 minute of the head of the Belfast July 12 parade walking down Royal Avenue, then Donegall Place before stopping at the cenotaph to remember the war dead. Video by Ben Lowry
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08:00I want to you that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be filled.
08:06This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
08:13Greater love has no man than this, for a man lay down his life for his friends.
08:20You are my friends if you do whatsoever I command you.
08:24These things I command you, that you love one another. Amen.
08:31We are stunned by the scale of the numbers.
08:35It is by reading the accounts of individuals and the grief in their families that bring the horror of war before us.
08:44This week I was deeply stirred by reading for the first time Pollock's War.
08:50Pollock's War, produced by the Ulster Scots Agency.
08:55The tales of the Reverend John Pollock, who succeeded a worshipful brother, the Reverend Hugh Hanna, in a church named St Enoch's,
09:04which stood at Carlisle Circus where we began our parade.
09:09It was the largest Protestant church in Ireland at that time, modeled upon St Enoch's from Glasgow City.
09:18John Pollock ministered in Glasgow before he came to our city where he was minister for over 30 years.
09:26His son Paul enlisted in the Young Citizen Volunteers and on the 1st of July 1916, the first day of the Battle of Somme,
09:37he was missing, believed killed in action.
09:40And when you read that account of the letters between the father and son and the mother and sister,
09:47it brings before us the sacrifice that was made by so many families in our city.
09:55I was interested, Reverend.
09:56Let our left grow old.
09:58Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
10:03At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.
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