Soldato
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I just saw this article on the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19904844
and I applaud and think it is only right that we mark 2014 as the centenary of the start of The Great War in a special way. I'm just not sure that it should be on Rememberance day 2014. Rememberace Day as we all know falls on the 11th November to coincide with the official cessation of hostilities in 1918 and it just seems innapropriate to use the same day to mark the start of what would become one of the biggest social, political and financial change events of the modern era, surely it is only right that 28th July or even more accurately 4th August are set aside as the memorial to this momentus event.
I know 11th November is the dedicated day for rememberance and adding anymore onto the calender can cause disruption but 11th November is the day for remembering all our lost not just those of 1914-18 War, also I think the 2018 Remeberance day should be the one where mark a centenary as that is exactly what it would be.
On top of all this I think important days over the years 2014-2018 should be given over to educate and mark important centenary events, just for example:
19th January 1915 -Zeppelin Bombing of Great Yarmouth by Zeppelin L.3 the first Air Raid on Britain
1st July 1916 -Start of the Battle of the Somme where on day one Britain suffered approximately 58,000 casualties (approx. 20,000 Dead)
15 September 1916 -Battle of Flers-Courcelette, the first time Tanks were used in Battle
7th June 1917 -Start of the Battle of Messines Ridge where 19 British mines detonated in tunnels under the German front line were so large the explosions, it is claimed, were heard in London and as far away as Dublin.
As I said those are just examples but now we no longer have a living connection to combatants of the war it is so important that we spend the 4 years setting aside time to remember the sacrifice of the people who fought in horrendous conditions (that includes sailors and airmen) and educate our young who will not have the chance to grow up with people who remember the era and hear their accounts.
If it is decided that the centenary event will only be marked on Remeberance Day 2014 I shan't complain because at least it will be marked but I will think it is an awful opportunity missed.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19904844
and I applaud and think it is only right that we mark 2014 as the centenary of the start of The Great War in a special way. I'm just not sure that it should be on Rememberance day 2014. Rememberace Day as we all know falls on the 11th November to coincide with the official cessation of hostilities in 1918 and it just seems innapropriate to use the same day to mark the start of what would become one of the biggest social, political and financial change events of the modern era, surely it is only right that 28th July or even more accurately 4th August are set aside as the memorial to this momentus event.
I know 11th November is the dedicated day for rememberance and adding anymore onto the calender can cause disruption but 11th November is the day for remembering all our lost not just those of 1914-18 War, also I think the 2018 Remeberance day should be the one where mark a centenary as that is exactly what it would be.
On top of all this I think important days over the years 2014-2018 should be given over to educate and mark important centenary events, just for example:
19th January 1915 -Zeppelin Bombing of Great Yarmouth by Zeppelin L.3 the first Air Raid on Britain
1st July 1916 -Start of the Battle of the Somme where on day one Britain suffered approximately 58,000 casualties (approx. 20,000 Dead)
15 September 1916 -Battle of Flers-Courcelette, the first time Tanks were used in Battle
7th June 1917 -Start of the Battle of Messines Ridge where 19 British mines detonated in tunnels under the German front line were so large the explosions, it is claimed, were heard in London and as far away as Dublin.
As I said those are just examples but now we no longer have a living connection to combatants of the war it is so important that we spend the 4 years setting aside time to remember the sacrifice of the people who fought in horrendous conditions (that includes sailors and airmen) and educate our young who will not have the chance to grow up with people who remember the era and hear their accounts.
If it is decided that the centenary event will only be marked on Remeberance Day 2014 I shan't complain because at least it will be marked but I will think it is an awful opportunity missed.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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