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Somehow and for reasons... freedom (liberty), familiarity, life... a sense of exaltation and distance the same one sky across all stages of humankind, seems most appropriate for the moment. "The Remembrance Day silence originates in Cape Town, South Africa where there was a daily three minute silence, known as the Three Minute Pause, initiated by the daily firing of the noon day gun on Signal Hill. This was instituted by the then Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, on 14 May 1918: one minute was a time of thanksgiving for those who had returned alive, the second minute was to remember the fallen. During the silence a bugler played the Last Post and then Reveille to signal the end of the silence. A Reuters correspondent in Cape Town cabled a description of the event to London and from there word spread to Canada and Australia.[1] Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, writing to Lord Milner in November 1919 described the silence that fell on the city during this daily ritual, and proposed that this became an official part of the annual service on Armistice Day.
Sir Percy's letter was received by Lord Milner on 4 November 1919, reviewed and accepted by the War Cabinet on 5 November, and was immediately approved by George V. A press statement was released from the Palace:
Tuesday next, 11 November, is the first anniversary of the Armistice, which stayed the worldwide carnage of the four preceding years and the victory of Right and Freedom. I believe that my people in every part of the Empire fervently wish to perpetuate the meaning of the Great Deliverance, and of those who laid down their lives to achieve it.
To afford an opportunity for the universal expression of their feeling, it is my desire and hope that at the hour when the Armistice comes into force, the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, there may be for a brief space of two minutes, a complete suspension of all our normal activities." Wikipedia
11.11.2015. Wednesday: mild enough at around 13C with some showers and almost no sunshine. Find a young apple tree has snapped under the weight of apples in recent winds... fallen.
Remembrance and never again? I often wonder what happened that extra minute. My memory when young was one of 3 very long minutes and not two!. The extra minute (daily) would give us time to reflect on what our future should look like. It appears that not one politician has spent a minute seriously looking at the humanitarian migration crisis now ill prepared for the continental winter.
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Finally, "Silent Spring": 38 Degrees highlights the fact that "Fifty years ago Monsanto's pesticide DDT was everywhere until the seminal book Silent Spring showed it could cause cancer -- a decade later it was banned. If this (Glyphosate) could cause cancer, let's not let it be sold for ten more years. Let's demand emergency precautionary action now." Glyphosate petition on line.
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Somehow and for reasons... freedom (liberty), familiarity, life... a sense of exaltation and distance the same one sky across all stages of humankind, seems most appropriate for the moment. "The Remembrance Day silence originates in Cape Town, South Africa where there was a daily three minute silence, known as the Three Minute Pause, initiated by the daily firing of the noon day gun on Signal Hill. This was instituted by the then Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, on 14 May 1918: one minute was a time of thanksgiving for those who had returned alive, the second minute was to remember the fallen. During the silence a bugler played the Last Post and then Reveille to signal the end of the silence. A Reuters correspondent in Cape Town cabled a description of the event to London and from there word spread to Canada and Australia.[1] Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, writing to Lord Milner in November 1919 described the silence that fell on the city during this daily ritual, and proposed that this became an official part of the annual service on Armistice Day.
Sir Percy's letter was received by Lord Milner on 4 November 1919, reviewed and accepted by the War Cabinet on 5 November, and was immediately approved by George V. A press statement was released from the Palace:
Tuesday next, 11 November, is the first anniversary of the Armistice, which stayed the worldwide carnage of the four preceding years and the victory of Right and Freedom. I believe that my people in every part of the Empire fervently wish to perpetuate the meaning of the Great Deliverance, and of those who laid down their lives to achieve it.
To afford an opportunity for the universal expression of their feeling, it is my desire and hope that at the hour when the Armistice comes into force, the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, there may be for a brief space of two minutes, a complete suspension of all our normal activities." Wikipedia
11.11.2015. Wednesday: mild enough at around 13C with some showers and almost no sunshine. Find a young apple tree has snapped under the weight of apples in recent winds... fallen.
Remembrance and never again? I often wonder what happened that extra minute. My memory when young was one of 3 very long minutes and not two!. The extra minute (daily) would give us time to reflect on what our future should look like. It appears that not one politician has spent a minute seriously looking at the humanitarian migration crisis now ill prepared for the continental winter.
.
Finally, "Silent Spring": 38 Degrees highlights the fact that "Fifty years ago Monsanto's pesticide DDT was everywhere until the seminal book Silent Spring showed it could cause cancer -- a decade later it was banned. If this (Glyphosate) could cause cancer, let's not let it be sold for ten more years. Let's demand emergency precautionary action now." Glyphosate petition on line.