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Why believe anything else he has written?

A large part of the ceremony is given over to the laying of commonwealth wreathes, which is straight after the last post.

It's a basic fact which he seems to claim doesn't happen, how much more of his writing is given over to this bias?



> It's a basic fact which he seems to claim doesn't happen

This is a lie.


How exactly? I mean this is what he says:

[Colonial subjects] also go largely uncommemorated by the hallowed rituals of Remembrance Day.

Here is the BBC recording, the first hour or so is preamble before the ceremony.

The last post finished at about 1:04:00 and the commonwealth countries start laying their wreathes at 1:11:10, straight after the Royal family and the UK political party heads:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0brgkgt/remembrance-s...

It's a recorded fact they were included significantly in the Remembrance Day rituals. You can go and see all the previous years too.

David Dimbleby even says "And now the high commissioners of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and India who played such a huge part in both world wars. 3 million soldiers and laborers from across the empire and the commonwealth served in the first world war, in the 2nd world war 5 million men and women.". It then carries on with the wreath laying of all the other commonwealth countries, all of which are named.


This comment does a better job of explaining it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18439954

"It's a basic fact which he seems to claim doesn't happen"

Even your quote doesn't back up what you say in the slightest:

"[Colonial subjects] also go largely uncommemorated by the hallowed rituals of Remembrance Day."

The articles does not say it does not happen. The article says that it does not happen enough. Saying otherwise is a lie.




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