We should honour the people who gave their lives so that we wouldn’t have to.
A veteran pays their respects during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Royal Artillery War Memorial in Hyde Park Corner, in London on 8 November 2020. Picture: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP
Sitting at my school’s Remembrance Day service with a poppy on my lapel, I figured that this tradition has been going on quite long. Few people living have any memory of World War II and the Armistice Day remembrance services have been going on since the end of World War I.Some schools have even called off this tradition, citing it as a glamourisation of war.
It’s not perfect, sure. It’s also not as bad as what it would otherwise be. As awful as war is, many of our freedoms, rights and ways of life are a result of wars. Yes, wars are behind us. Yes, the world wars were long ago. Yes, many of the people who ever knew the fallen have fallen themselves. That doesn’t make the modern Remembrance Day any less valid. It doesn’t make the ceremony invalid.
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