Posted by fat-freddy's-cat on November 13, 2023, 12:15 am, in reply to "Re: Remembrance Sunday"
You're spot on with that observation. Growing up it was treated as a reminder for us to never let it happen again but then the atmosphere changed when they started observing two minutes silence instead of what had been up to then, one minute; it seemed to bring on a hierarchy of grief.
One friend who's Father had appeared in virtually every theatre in the 2nd World War his Dad threw his medals away - he'd killed too many