Today is Remembrance Sunday and the official ceremony at which the Haringey dignitaries and leaders lay memorial wreaths. The ceremony is very well done with the scouts and the venture scouts raising standards or laying wreaths for those too frail to do so themselves. The sun shone brightly down, the traffic was stopped and those who died that we might live were honoured and remembered.
Have a listen to the Remembrance podcast on iTunes or on the Royal British Legion blog. It’s a good way to remember.
Wonderful Lynne….. so when exactly will ‘we’ remember people killed in the numerous genocides globally…… or how about we think about remembering the innocent people massacred by the British during the colonial occupation of South Asia. My argument would be that we should stop selectively choosing who should receive recognition and remember all people killed. In addition, why don’t we remember the innocent children and adults killed by the British in Iraq, why do they not deserve equal recognition? How narrow-minded that we don’t care about anyone apart from ourselves- how selfish of us.