We need a more inclusive Remembrance Day
A new report ahead of Remembrance Day is recommending a deeper and more meaningful form of remembrance that encompasses both soldiers and civilians on all sides in all wars.
Released today (2nd November) by the thinktank Ekklesia, its suggestions include an honest acknowledgement that some did “die in vainâ€, an end to “selective remembrance†and making Armistice Day a bank holiday. It follows the death of the “last Tommyâ€, Harry Patch, who described Remembrance Day as “just show businessâ€.
Remembrance has been ‘cheapened’ it says by a failure to back up words with action, particularly when it comes to successive Government’s care for war veterans, but also the lack of resources put into peacebuilding.
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