The day after
Yesterday was Remembrance Sunday. We in the UK tell ourselves that we remember those killed in the wars. There is of course nobody left to remember the fallen of WWI, and very few still have a memory of people killed in WWII. The truth is that we are dealing with an imagined memory. And this imagination is publicly organised and kept alive by various interest groups, in State, Church and civil society. In some ways it is like Christmas, with Remembrance Sunday having its own liturgy, music and solemn processions. There are even special remembrance decorations that each year are taken out of storage and, as here, are mounted to the memorials of the war dead.
The day after
Yesterday was Remembrance Sunday. We in the UK tell ourselves that we remember those killed in the wars. There is of course nobody left to remember the fallen of WWI, and very few still have a memory of people killed in WWII. The truth is that we are dealing with an imagined memory. And this imagination is publicly organised and kept alive by various interest groups, in State, Church and civil society. In some ways it is like Christmas, with Remembrance Sunday having its own liturgy, music and solemn processions. There are even special remembrance decorations that each year are taken out of storage and, as here, are mounted to the memorials of the war dead.