| Weekend's 2 minutes silence 11:22 - Nov 14 with 3217 views | Mookamoo |
I stopped and observed the 2 minutes silence on Friday - 11th hour and all that.
It's all kicked off on our local Facebook group that our village also didn't observe a 2 minutes silence on Sunday as well. The church seems to have made the grievous mistake of having their 2 minutes silence during their Sunday morning service at 9:30.
Is it now a thing you have to do both? |  | | |  |
| Weekend's 2 minutes silence on 19:24 - Nov 15 with 342 views | Plums |
| Weekend's 2 minutes silence on 19:07 - Nov 14 by HARRY10 |
Up till a few years back it was mainly cpmmerated by those who had served, or had family members who had served.
Now it has become another nationalistic freak show, by universally white people.
I recall one of the notable changes when talking to a couple of Aussies re their ANZAC day. It almost came to blows, over their ignorance. I don't expect folk to know about exact battles, dates, names etc but that there were other nationalities there, That a fair percent of those serving were born in the UK and/or first generation Australians.
Their view was the deaths were mainly caused by English generals not at Gallipoli, or English officers safe 'behind the lines'. It was to them a reminder of how the plucky 'digger' was sacrificed on the altar of English indifference.
As a matter of interest the French lost more men than did Australia 9700 v 8700, and Britain lost 34000. The figures do not back the over romanticised version many in Oz and NZ have of this event
And no, I am not taking a nationalistic view of that. I deplore any death. Even the Turks, who used soldiers from the empire - Syrians. More of those were killed than Australians.
The old saying that truth is the first casualty of war, it is also a long term wound of peace as well. |
I remember the frothy mouthed gammons shrieking about the Sikh soldier in one of the opening scenes of 1917. Completely oblivious to the fact that there were nearly as many Indian soldiers on the Western Front at one point as there were Brits.
I always buy a poppy to support the work of the RBL but I understand why so many don't. What I don't understand is why so many so called patriots spend money that could be given to veterans charities on Chinese tat to show how much they're remembrancing. |  |
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