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Default OT Remembrance Monday Bank Holiday petition


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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.
|
| How old are your daughters?

The younger is 22. While it is possible there has been a sea-change
in the past 8 years, I don't think there has been.

| 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.
|
| Mrs T?

Hush. Speak of the devil, and ....


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Nick Maclaren.
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