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Originally Posted by flashytart
i was talking to my mate's son about this earlier, he's 11 and didnt even know why we wear poppys, i think a lot more should be done in schools to teach the next generation about rememberance day and the men who fought for our country
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With all (apart from 1 or 2) the WW1 vets dead, and the WW11 men in their 80s and 90s it is becoming history. I do agree that much more could be done in schools to make sure it doesn't become ancient history. But how can one bring it home to an eleven-year-old, that there was a time in the not so distant past when, if it wasn't for the actions and sacrifices of their grandfathers and great grantfathers that the world would be a far worse place than it is now? Even those of us who can remember our grandfathers, veterans of that mass slaughter on the Western Front, are getting on in years. If the young are not prepared to remember, or taught why one should remember, the result could be that they have to do all over again what has already done at such horrendous cost.
Accrington does have the advantage in that it was home to the Pals, whose courage on the 1st of July 1916 has become legendary. There can be no better place to start educating the young than an appreciation of what those men did almost a century ago.