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Remembrance Day Is almost here
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Yeah man , no problem.
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Putonahappyface
Member
Gets me every time.
Tams
Member
Went to the war memorial for 11 today.
I was the youngest person there who knew what it was about (so the little kids don't count) by about 20 years.
Pretty sad, to be honest. And right after the silence ended a group of school kids came by on the road nearby.
I reckon in about 20 years, most places won't have a ceremony happen at their war memorials in this country. Just the Cenotaph and in larger towns.
It didn't help that the person reading Dulce et Decorum Est spoke so quietly that no one knew when to say 'We will remember them'.
I was the youngest person there who knew what it was about (so the little kids don't count) by about 20 years.
Pretty sad, to be honest. And right after the silence ended a group of school kids came by on the road nearby.
I reckon in about 20 years, most places won't have a ceremony happen at their war memorials in this country. Just the Cenotaph and in larger towns.
It didn't help that the person reading Dulce et Decorum Est spoke so quietly that no one knew when to say 'We will remember them'.
FunkMiller
Member
I try to think of it this way: those men went to war and died so people could have the freedom to not have to know about the horrors of war. It's sad that less and less people understand their sacrifice as the years go by, and they live in ignorance, in safe, comfortable lives... but I'd like to think that's exactly what a lot of them would have wanted. The went through hell so nobody else has to.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Took my mom shopping this morning. The store announced it on the speaker and everyone in the store stood in silence as this played.
Tams
Member
I see it as part of a general decline in community and public responsibility.
I can't help but think that if too many of us do forget about things such as the sacrifices or ancestors made for our freedoms, that we are just setting ourselves up to inevitably repeat the mistakes that led to them having to sacrifice their lives.