robert.saunders
MB Enthusiast
Unless people were taught about events such that they have a significant understanding as to what they are showing their sincere sympathies for, there is no point in just telling them to, making them to or having them do it falsely.
You've never watched the Legion service of Remembrance on television? Seen the service at the Cenotaph, also on television? Rather helpfully, the BBC includes clips & montage from those involved to inform people.
I understand your point about being taught at school, but I find it difficult to believe you have never read anything or seen a programme on TV or read/watched the news that relates to WWI or WWII, or any other conflict involving our armed forces since 1945.
I totally understand people forgetting the time, but when everyone else is observing the silence, it isn't difficult to understand why it's happening
Perhaps, again, I am in a minority. I admire your honesty in posting