That’s good then, it was obviously worth the lives of the one million seven hundred thousand Commonwealth Servicemen and women who died during the Great War wasn’t it?

Regards,

kev35

They didn’t die specifically so people could have a day off but they did die so that future generations would have the freedom to spend time with their families in peace (amongst many other things). I don’t see that an extra bank holiday is an inappropriate way to mark their sacrifice (even if the majority of those on the receiving end of said holiday don’t give it a second thought).

I think and hope that the fallen would be happy enough that they’d ‘won’ their descendents a chance to spend more time together – God knows that time is limited enough in this work/money obssessed society – and if their sacrifice brings a tiny extra bit of quality time into our lives or a gives another good excuse for a veterans get-together why not embrace it rather than poo-pooing the idea?

The two minutes silence is a highly appropriate, moving and sombre ceremony but from reading books, about RAF aircrew for instance, it was clear that they lived their lives to the full in between missions – I’m sure they’d be all in favour of a sortie to Alton Towers!