Should Remembrance Day be forgotten?
I’ll play the devil’s advocate then and give the counter argument. It’s good to have a bit of balance. Yes, “Remembrance Day” should be forgotten. All the sentiments expressed by others in response to your question are perfectly justified, and it is important to remember the lives of those who fought and died in the world wars. But to have a remembrance day for the world wars yet not for the countless other ones is discriminatory and insulting. Why should the casualties of the world wars get special treatment? Were their lives more valuable and more important than other people who have died in other wars? We set aside a special day to remember war victims of a specific time, yet ignore people who made exactly the same sacrifice but at a different period of time (or in a different place). This is incredibly disrespectful. Say a soldier survived world war two, but then died shortly afterwards in a different military campaign. He is not “legible” for your remembrance on “Remembrance Day”,
