Walking around college today, one thing was painfully apparent – nobody wears a poppy these days. This issue of apathy towards Remembrance Day is one that genuinely saddens me – why don’t people understand!
How can people be so monumentally stupid as to not grasp the shear gravity of what the British Legion tries to promote? In WW1 alone, over nine million soldiers were killed on the battlefield; this is the eqivalent of killing one in six UK citizens. Since, there have been many more wars and millions more deaths – every corner of the world has seen conflict at one time. Why then do people not see this as important? It’s damned well important, if British people had faltered in their resolution during 1941, the world would now be speaking German. Countless ordinary people laid down their lives so we might live in peace and prosperity – it’s such a mindless and ignorant thing to forget them.
All I can do is hope that things will change.
1 comment:
let's not forget the boys who died in the trenches in that bloody awful war that ended on this date so long ago
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