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Old 12-01-2008, 06:56 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren Nick Maclaren is offline
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Default OT Remembrance Monday Bank Holiday petition


In article ,
Martin writes:
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| Schools don;t teach recent history " because it is open to different
| interpretations"

That is not true. Both of my daughters did the second world war,
including references to the Holocaust.

There is also the distasteful fact that, for the past quarter of
a century, Remembrance Sunday has been used by politicians as an
opportunity for jingoism and as a way of claiming that they care
about dead and crippled troops without actually doing anything for
them. The original offender was, of course, you-know-who.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.