>> Choosing Remembrance Day is obviously going to be
>> upsetting to many and a provocation to some.
CG, are you or anyone you know offended or provoked by it being on the 11th?
Is anyone on here, particularly Duncan who I think is the 'Father of the Forum' in age terms?
I don't and I'm old enough to have had parents who lived through the second world war and Grandparents in the first. Maternal Grandmother, born in 1892, was always glued to the telly for the Festival of Remembrance and went to church on the Sunday. She might have been offended but neither of my Parents would.
This year the 11th falls on a Saturday but, other than observing two minutes silence at 11am then for as long as I can remember it's a normal working day if it falls on Monday to Friday. Even on Remembrance Sunday, to which the main ceremony has long been moved, life away from the Cenotaph and war memorials/churches goes on as normal.
Football and other sporting fixtures carry on with no thought as to respect for our Glorious Dead.
Interesting stuff on Times Radio during the night, replaying the stuff from during the day, talking about the impact of pro-Palestine demos etc on the UK's Jewish population. Some at least are genuinely intimidated by it and take 'From the River to the Sea' far more literally than I would were I attending tomorrow's march.
Is it relevant to Ms Braverman's use of the phrase hate march that her husband is of the Jewish faith?
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