Cambridge Uni students reject Remembrance Day

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As for the Cambridge students who started all this, well they are just silly little kids and another example of the entitled generation. But, we all made mistakes when we were young and as they are at Cambridge, if they get through uni without flunking I can almost guarantee they will be voting Tory by the time they are 50.

 

[Slab]

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/metr...ce-day-as-imperialist-propaganda-8030829/amp/

So do these students need to understand they have their free speech because of the people you are supposed to be remembering or has it now got to the stage where people can’t stop associating it with recent wars ?

Not sure your opening comment has much to do with the article really

It reads that one group of students wanted to seek permission for a proposal to further encourage remembrance for British war veterans to the exclusion of the rest
Another group didn’t like how everyone else was being excluded and tweaked the proposal so far the other way that it was just too disconnected from its purpose
Both ends were rejected (because they both represent only the extremities of the situation)

The university is still having a remembrance service
No one’s banned from wearing poppies or commemorating the veterans
If the initial proposal wasn’t so insular in its wording there’s every chance it would have been approved

The biggest thing this article highlights is students aren’t spending much time studying and they don’t understand how to communicate

It has nothing to do with free speech or recent political conflicts/wars

 

[Deleted member 16999]

You've also been watching A few good men recently haven't you Will you and LP have to audition for the Jack Nicholson's part in the remake

There’s nothing funny about Remembrance Day, my brother was killed on duty, I’ve lost numerous friends and I’ve carried out the duty of Casualty Notification Officer (CNO) 4 times.
CNO is when I had to go to the home of a next of kin of a serving soldier and tell the mother/father/fiance that their son had been killed or their daughter was seriously injured.
So your attempts to be humorous are nothing but sad and insulting.

 

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[Tashyboy]

On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme. None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why. The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-Ter Noise.

There the bodies were draped with the union flag. Sentries were posted and Brigadier-General Wyatt and a Colonel Gell selected one body at random. A French honour guard was selected and stood by the coffin overnight. On the morning of the 8th, a specially designed coffin made of oak from the grounds of Hampton Court was brought and the unknown warrior placed inside. On top was placed a crusaders sword and a shield on which was inscribed '( a British Warrior who fell in the GREAT WAR 1914-1918 for king and country'.

On The 9th of November, the unknown warrior was taken by horse-drawn carriage through guards of honour and the sound of tolling bells and bugle calls to the quayside. There it was saluted by Marechal Foche and loaded onto HMS Vernon bound for Dover..... the coffin stood on the deck covered in wreaths and surrounded by the French honour guard.

On arrival at Dover, the unknown warrior was greeted with a 19 gun salute, normally only reserved for field marshals. He then traveled by special train to Victoria Station London.
He stayed there overnight and on the morning of the 11th of November, he was taken to Westminster Abbey.

The idea of the unknown warrior was thought of by a Padre called David Railton who had served at the front during the great war and it was the union flag he used as an altar cloth at the front, that had been draped over the coffin. It was his intention that all relatives of the 517,773 combatants whose bodies had not been identified could believe that the unknown warrior could very well be their lost husband, Father, brother or son....

Every year on the 11th of November we Remember the unknown warrior....At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We will remember them.

Enough said

 

[Crazyface]

If it wasn't for the MILLIONS of heroes who gave their lives, who knows where or what sort of world we'd be living in now. For those of you who seem to be siding with the morons at the uni you should hang your heads in shame.

 

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If it wasn't for the MILLIONS of heroes who gave their lives, who knows where or what sort of world we'd be living in now. For those of you who seem to be siding with the morons at the uni you should hang your heads in shame.

Siding with them for what, having a conversation?? Nothing has been banned, just the proposal to actively promote has been denied. I’ll buy a poppy and remember, but it’s not compulsory. Surely that’s the premise of the sacrifice.