Current Affairs Israel is an apartheid state

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coollino said:
what are you meant to do on remembrance day? sit there all day and remember?
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Personally, I take a moment to reflect and think of family members who were killed in the war.

People I never knew or met but grew up listening to stories about. People who meant a great deal to older members of my family and whose memories are loved and fondly remembered.

If I was in Liverpool I’d go to the Waterloo war memorial and pay my respects, as their names are listed on that memorial.

That’s what Remembrance Sunday is to me.
 
Mutzo Nutzo said:
Personally, I take a moment to reflect and think of family members who were killed in the war.

People I never knew or met but grew up listening to stories about. People who meant a great deal to older members of my family and whose memories are loved and fondly remembered.

If I was in Liverpool I’d go to the Waterloo war memorial and pay my respects, as their names are listed on that memorial.

That’s what Remembrance Sunday is to me.
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Quite. It is a date that remains an important one for a moment of reflection. I am 100% certain that I am not the only one on here that has significant dates that are so personal to folks, that a similar feeling is evoked. The collective response to 11/11 is always moving.
 
roydo said:
Quite. It is a date that remains an important one for a moment of reflection. I am 100% certain that I am not the only one on here that has significant dates that are so personal to folks, that a similar feeling is evoked. The collective response to 11/11 is always moving.
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Absolutely. It’s a very personal thing and the day itself evokes a whole swathe of emotions and is not simply limited to those who died in the service of their country.

I think that for many people the day itself provides some comfort, in so much that it is a national collective Remembrance day and maybe for that one day they don’t feel so alone with their grief and memories.
 
Wat Tyler said:
She took it off the IDF YouTube page. Literally
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That wouldn't surprise me.

So all those years she was on our screen on Newsnight, when she would have covered on numerous occasions the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this is what she would have been thinking all along.

Great bit of recruitment by the BBC.
 
Mutzo Nutzo said:
Absolutely. It’s a very personal thing and the day itself evokes a whole swathe of emotions and is not simply limited to those who died in the service of their country.

I think that for many people the day itself provides some comfort, in so much that it is a national collective Remembrance day and maybe for that one day they don’t feel so alone with their grief and memories.
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A moment of reflection, to understand the sacrifice and waste that was borne by so many so that we can live and breathe free today.
From every conflict, and every side, a memory and a communal loss because of the weakness and blindness of all of humankind.
 
Mutzo Nutzo said:
Absolutely. It’s a very personal thing and the day itself evokes a whole swathe of emotions and is not simply limited to those who died in the service of their country.

I think that for many people the day itself provides some comfort, in so much that it is a national collective Remembrance day and maybe for that one day they don’t feel so alone with their grief and memories.
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As far as I know, I had no family killed in either of the world wars. Certainly none I knew anyrate. But I am a sucker for a nation being together, be it 11/11, the Olympics, the Queen, etc. We fight, we argue, but underneath, Brits are generally ok imo.
 
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