How long should we continue to observe Remembrance Sunday?

Question

Scouse, just because I asked this question doesn't mean that I have a problem with Remembrance Sunday.
I realise that in Horwich the march on Remembrance Sunday might be cancelled unless the British Legion can stump up the cash to police the necessary road closures. I just thought that that was disgraceful - it seemed to me to be a sign of forgetting what should not be forgotten.

Answer 1

Given that British Soldiers are dying suffering from wounds both mental and physical from WW11 onwards. What is your problem with it? I hope it goes on long after the end of my life (I have never served in the forces by the way) to make the point that these men were ordinary men called to defend the interests of all of us ( I don't want to here about Iraq and Afghanistan, here anyway) and giving their very lives. Whilst I would much rather proper provision was made and proper protection given to them. I still feel Remembrance Sunday underlines the fact that nobody wins a war, some just lose more than others.(except for armament manufacturers and oil companies)

Answer 2

As long as it takes! that's what my dad and uncles were told, and they saw it through to the end, well most of them. If you have any doubts, visit the immaculately tended mass graveyards around Europe, then try and find a comparison in England, that the spivs/developers ain't eyeing up as a potential site for their next development, on the grounds that its a long time ago, they served their purpose at the time and have now become a useless strain on the pension funds. My dad died when I was 10 years old, but I was lucky, some of my school friends dads died when they were a lot younger, and some of them had never seen their dads, or dads their sons. So you tell me if we should observe Remembrance Sunday.

Answer 3

We should continue to observe it as long as we are able to stand on our feet and feel gratitude to 'the Glorious Dead' who gave their tomorrow for our today. We should be grateful for their heroism in times of peace as well as in times of war. Last year I spoke to West Indian children about a Remembrance Sunday which I realised was rather baffling to them and told them how different their society would have been had Hitler won the Second World War and adults came to me after the service to thank me for doing so. Remembrance Sunday has a world relevance.

Answer 4

Remembrance Day is for all service men and women from all conflicts both old and more recent....we should and have a national duty to carry on with the day until we as a nation can settle our differences with other nations without resorting to war...

Answer 5

Forever, as the saying goes "lest we forget" British service personell are still "in harms way" somewhere in the world,they are doing it so people like us can do what we are doing now,asking questions and expressing an opinion !

Answer 6

Until the world has been free of war for 100 years ie forever.

Answer 7

It won't be up to us to decide. It will soon no doubt be banned by some lefty loony, saying it is not in the interest of our politically correct society to remember the dead of the 2 world wars or to remember the more recent of our lost soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Answer 8

when the immigrants vote on it and decide to do away with it
we probably wont get a vote because no national will have a residence to be allowed on the electoral role
this country is slowly being sold with all its traditions
i'll never forget what they did and i'll damn well make sure my children don't either

Answer 9

It must always be remembered and never forgotten. "A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."W. Churchill.

Answer 10

For as long as we remember christmas easter and all other things that make us what we are or should be decent human beings