Discussing the motion:

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Discussing the motion: “This house believes we should discontinue the practice of Remembrance Day silence.”

Is the Remembrance Day silence simply a minute of our whole year, that makes us feel better about ourselves for remembering the Great War where so many lost their lives? Or is it a pointless act of remembering something we shouldn’t?

        Millions of men died in that war that was said to end all wars. The fact that our countries were involved in that mass murder; is that something that we’re proud of, or want to remember? Are we proud that we were part of that mass slaughter? Do we want to glorify war by remembering it, and saying that all the men that went there and killed thousands of innocent men did the right thing? Is that what you want your children to grow up thinking?  If you can remember back to when you were a child what did you think about standing still for a minute in utter silence remembering something that was so unexplained to you that  you barely know the name of, then what were you thinking? Were you thinking that you needed the toilet, or that you couldn’t wait for play time? Or did you really appreciate what it means to die for your country? Now take a guess at how many of you from today’s modern society were able to say that you fully appreciated the silence? A very small number. However even if children are nowadays more educated about it, there really is to large a number of people ignorant as to why we practice the Remembrance Day silence; too many to continue with it.

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        What do you think about in the silence now? Do you really think about all those men that died, and what their families were put through? Modern society isn’t designed like that, we’re not built to think about that kind of thing. We are a society based on the present and the future. What’s done is done, and no matter how amazing it was that those men put their lives on the line, it is long over.

        Well what about the people who do appreciate the silence you say? Well who does? There are so few people still alive after ...

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