Remembrance Day Ceremony

Has anyone any idea by exactly how much the service would have been 'cut short'? I doubt it would have been such that anyone (dead or alive) would have felt their day had been blighted.

The Remembrance Day service takes up only one part of the day, after all.

Ceesan, the queen did not fight for our country, and I have only said the dead of the wars deserve one day in the year to have full respect, not a service cut short , where is my lack of respect?

Why oh why has a perfectly reasonable topic descended into this level of bad tempered vituperative mudslinging??
Is it a case that we get grumpier as we get older or is it just that some people thrive on a ding dong?
It's worse than PMQs.

Anniebach do you really have so little respect for those who fought for their country? Shame on you.

One participant is getting on a bit,

x posts, ana !

Ah, but some posters think that everything is a right-wing plot and an excuse for DC to get his ugly mug into the photo opportunities! (or for royalty to lord it over us all)

Everything's a right wing/royalist plot to some people...

That is actually what I was saying Not To Old!! Hardly a right wing plot!!

Oh, honestly. What a fuss. They are shortening the ceremony at the Cenotaph (or not, I'm confused now) because the participants are getting on a bit and many cannot cope with standing around in the cold for ages. Sounds like common sense to me. Congraulations to whomever thought up the idea.

Thabk you nigglenellie, I did think I was allowed to post my opinions but your permission and approval means so much

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No need, the posts are there for all to see!

Suppose you keep a file rosesarered , poor you

Kill the old ones off to join their comrades, eh?

That was your most ridiculous and melodramatic post to date!

Full respect for those thousands and thousands of war dead , many were teenagers, who died lying in the mud , is second to the comfort of those eho have lived a long life ? Not for me

If it is the consideration being given to an elderly queen that sticks in the throat, then perhaps it is time to consider two things.

The sovereign is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and as such it is her duty to be present and take the salute at the service of remembrance for those who died while serving under her. She would no doubt consider it a dereliction of that duty to leave early.

The older (and well venerated) veterans who find the long service in the cold a great strain would think it a disgrace to admit that the ceremony was too much for them, but their respect and chivalry toward their ageing female sovereign, who they swore to serve when they joined the armed forces, would allow them to accept a shortened ceremony out of concern for her.

So it was not just that pesky royal personage whose comfort (and pride) was considered. Not that it matters now, as it seems that it is back to the long-drawn-out status quo.

rosesarered, please , the playing of the ' for a Christian ' card has been played so often on this forum it's boring and pathetic ,

x posts, roses

(my question was to ajenela, BTW)

Exactly, Ana which is why a slightly shortened ceremony would have been a good idea.

Maybe this is what puts people off Christians.