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00:02 Oh, yeah, it is. There's conflicts all over the world and our forces are, you know, at the main front all the time.
00:08 So, no, support them. You know, they're there for us and we should be there for them. So, that's it really.
00:17 Yes, I really like to see it and observe the tomb in the silence. Yeah, definitely.
00:24 So, my friend, Abi, her birthday usually falls on Remembrance Sunday. She's the 11th of the 11th.
00:31 We tend to go and lay poppies down at her dad's grave because his family were present during the war and a lot of them fought.
00:40 So, we do poppies and we wear poppies on the day, but we don't really go out and do parades and stuff.
00:46 It's just a small intimate get-together.
00:48 It does mean a lot because a lot of people fought for our country and lost their lives then, so it is quite a lot.
00:54 I think everyone in the world respects those who lost their lives for us.
01:00 I don't think we'd be as free as we are now if they didn't.
01:04 Put my poppy on. Important. Very important. Of course it is.
01:10 I mean, we should remember it all the time. They gave their lives, didn't they?
01:14 Forever and ever. Forever and ever.
01:16 And there's still going on wars, so we really need to keep up the tradition, don't we?
01:22 You know, my uncle died in the Somme and I go back to the First World War now.
01:26 And my uncle fought in the Second World War in Germany, so you've got to think of it, haven't you?
01:31 For us older people, yeah, definitely. Well, the younger people should remember, but they probably...
01:37 I think probably 50% of people don't observe the tomb in the silence, which is a shame.
01:44 I think so. Yeah, very important.
01:46 Especially with what's going on in the world now, out in Palestine and Gaza and that,
01:52 it's all too easy to forget past lessons. I think it's very important.
01:57 And on top of that, anyway, the thousands of people who died just to let us be able to walk down this street, yeah.
02:03 Yeah, exactly, exactly. I think the feelings are running really very strong now with what's going on in Gaza.
02:10 Very important. My husband and I always wear our poppy, obviously.
02:17 And I think if we don't remember them, who else will?
02:23 And especially as I think, certainly my age group, we've got family members and can remember them
02:28 who have died in the wars in the past. And I've had a son who's been in the army.
02:36 And it's terribly important that we remember them. Terribly important.
02:40 And if we don't keep celebrating it, it'll be one of those things, like a lot of things,
02:44 that will just disappear and nobody will care. And that's what it's all about, is caring.
02:49 Caring for what they did for us. And the only thing I can do for them is wearing a poppy
02:54 and sitting and thinking about them for an hour or so and watching a celebration,
02:59 in beauty commas, a celebration on a TV. That's the least I can do.
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