2 Minutes Silence

[IggyB]

Are you and your place of work going to have 2 minues silence on the 11th? Is this mark of respect dying out? Do you think we'll always have a moment of remeberance for those that gave their lives fighting for this country?

[andy hughes]

I work for BT, and the year before last, they 'forgot', so I'll let you know.

[natalie_1982]

I work for Local Govt and we are.

[cheyenne]

YES.

[georgit79]

I think it's dying out, which is sad but a sign of the times. I always have my own little 2 minutes silence anyway.

[natalie_1982]

I don't know if that's sad or not Georgit, my dad's uncle died last year and he was in the war but got caught and wound up in a POW camp. He always maintained that he would never celebrate rememberance day/ Sunday - he'd been tortured and his friends killed - why on earth would he want to remember that?

[El21]

I hope so to be honest.  I think we are - I'll complain if not!  I do not think that it shall last for much, much longer as the younger the generation go the less and the less the times of the great wars can be fore told to such an extent.  I hope for all those who died to keep Great Britain as it is, the 2 minute silence stays put for centuries.....

[nicola_red]

I work in an arts centre, we didn't do it last year and I know a bloke in another department complained to the management about that, but I dunno if anything came of it. It's a bit tricky because we can't stop in the middle of phone calls, and if we turn the phones off people will inevitably whinge about it. I think it is dying out but I don't really think that's a problem. Pity my poor bf - it's his birthday tomorrow and everyone is having protracted gloomy silences...

[libertie]

Lets not forget that it isn't only to remember those who died in World Wars one & two it is for all our Armed Services people who have died since - Northern Ireland The Falklands and of course Iraq.

[IggyB]

libertie - it was for this reason that I thought more people would be thinking about it as we are at war

[IggyB]

libertie - it was for this reason that I thought more people would be thinking about it as we are at war and british

[IggyB]

libertie - it was for this reason that I thought more people would be thinking about it as we are at war and british soldiers

[IggyB]

libertie - it was for this reason that I thought more people would be thinking about it as we are at war and british soldiers are

[IggyB]

dying ... sorry about the mess above

[georgit79]

nicola_red: it's my brother's birthday tomorrow too. It's one way of never forgetting I suppose.

natalie_1982: do you think a large number of veterans feel this way?

[natalie_1982]

I don't know, I mean he wasn't saying that when they were handing out those reward payment things a few years ago when he went out and brought a brand new car. I guess it depends what experiences you had during the war. Another one I knew fully supported the cause, he was a lot older that my great uncle and was a Major during the war. I don't know enough to comment really though.

[apricot2]

County Council and yes, we are.  I'm not at my normal place of work, I'm in court tomorrow so I'm not sure what will happen.

[sddsddean]

I always pull the truck over to the side of the road and have seen other drivers do it as well. My uncle was killed during WW2 and so I never knew him, but one of my most treasured possesions is his RAF Pilots log book. It is sad to say that after about a years training to fly Wellington bombers, he was shot down over Hamburg on only his 6th mission. He has no known grave, but I try to get to the RAF Memorial at Runnymede every couple of years where his name is on the wall with thousands of others.

[NoGood Boyo]

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. NGB.

[Julie&Jack]

I knew that they probably wouldn't so I went out to my car and did my own rememberance.  The tradition should keep it's respectability because so many are still fighting for their countries, and peace.