Millions of Britons stopped what they were doing yesterday to mark the anniversary of Armistice Day. They stopped at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in remembrance of the day in 1918 which signalled the end of the First World War.
That solemn two minute silence honours the dead of all wars and it will be repeated when the Queen leads the nation at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday.
Yesterday, a small group of protesters burned a model of a poppy in Exhibition Road, South Kensington. Some held placards saying BRITISH SOLDIERS BURN IN HELL.
These same people forget that our soldiers gave their lives to preserve what is still thankfully a free country.
What, I wonder, would happen if these same people returned to their own countries of origin to protest about the happenings there?
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That solemn two minute silence honours the dead of all wars and it will be repeated when the Queen leads the nation at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday.
Yesterday, a small group of protesters burned a model of a poppy in Exhibition Road, South Kensington. Some held placards saying BRITISH SOLDIERS BURN IN HELL.
These same people forget that our soldiers gave their lives to preserve what is still thankfully a free country.
What, I wonder, would happen if these same people returned to their own countries of origin to protest about the happenings there?
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