Remembrance Day Ceremony

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

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.

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

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

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)

x posts, ana !

One participant is getting on a bit,

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

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.

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?

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.

The Queen was too young to fight in the war, her father too old. She did however join the AT S at 17, something a lot of young women, including my mother did during this period. Prince Phillip was a serving Officer on a fighting ship, Earl Mountbatten, again too old to fight, was heavily involved in the direction of the war, The Kings brother, The Duke of Kent was killed during the war. I don't think that's a bad war record for any family, and I think gives HM the right to attend this ceremony with pride.

The veterans survived, it is not a service for them, it is for the dead. That remark sounds completely dismissive to me. There were also a couple of other comments too, but as the posts have already been deleted I can't quote them. I would take issue too, with the remark about the day not being for the veterans - why do you think so many people stay long after the service to applaud as they march past?

GNHQ. Why not ??
Is this a new austerity measure?
Hot chocolate is all very well for old dears.. . . . . .

Ceesan, you explain what Remembrance Sunday means to you , to me it means remembering the dead of wars and conflicts

So how would cutting a few minutes off the Service affect your ability to do that, Anniebach?

Ooh! You've been told off on this thread, and I haven't been reading it!

Walks onto the thread, looks around, thinks Good Grief, exits.

I thought they've cut it short because the Queen and the veterans are knocking on a bit now. Quite understandable I would have thought.

Representatives of commonwealth countries lay their tributes in groups. I thought that the proposal was for politicians (and some members of the Royal Family?) to do the same. Really shocked that this could cause so much bad feeling?

"Those who fell, those who fought, those who survived, the families of all ex servicemen and women, those who served in the ambulance or fire watching services" Where do you draw the line?
I think what we should be remembering is the readiness which those people showed in the face of danger, to make their country's service their priority.
Service is no longer a popular concept but when I see those frail old codgers (no disrespect!!) and think of their incredible bravery and resilience, I feel truly humbled.
It is a Service of Remembrance, some of us will remember family members who are no longer with us. Others, those who have to live with the legacy of fighting or imprisonment. Dies it matter? For this period, if for no other "We will remember them".

So, is it only the PM laying a wreath? Why can't they all walk up together and put their wreaths down?

Oh fat finger syndrome
"Does it matter....?"