There was a minutes silence to respect the Armistice and remember the British fallen, at a football match between Manchester United and Blackburn Rovers. Nothing unusual about that, except that it was immaculately observed at a large football match for the first time in a number of years.
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However this gave me pause for thought.
What made 75,000 people, amongst whom there has always been a minority element who would chant through minute’s silences in the past, suddenly respect it en mass?
I know that we have soldiers fighting and dying across the globe, but that has applied in previous years and the minutes silence has not always been fully respected …. Hmm what’s going on?
Is this an unconscious statement to those who don’t want to be British/English that we back our soldiers against you?
I thought again about why so many soldiers died on our behalf in the last century, when in this century, there are now those of our fellow ‘citizens’ who send their sons to foreign fields to kill British soldiers.
Is that what we fought two wars for?
I know that we have soldiers fighting and dying across the globe, but that has applied in previous years and the minutes silence has not always been fully respected …. Hmm what’s going on?
Is this an unconscious statement to those who don’t want to be British/English that we back our soldiers against you?
I thought again about why so many soldiers died on our behalf in the last century, when in this century, there are now those of our fellow ‘citizens’ who send their sons to foreign fields to kill British soldiers.
Is that what we fought two wars for?
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