Is Remembrance Sunday still as important as it was?
With Remembrance Sunday just around the corner, we speak to the people of Cardiff about their thoughts on the day, how they pay their respects and whether young people should be more involved where they can.
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00:02 Oh, yeah, it is. There's conflicts all over the world and our forces are, you know, at the main front all the time.
00:08 So, no, support them. You know, they're there for us and we should be there for them. So, that's it really.
00:17 Yes, I really like to see it and observe the tomb in the silence. Yeah, definitely.
00:24 So, my friend, Abi, her birthday usually falls on Remembrance Sunday. She's the 11th of the 11th.
00:31 We tend to go and lay poppies down at her dad's grave because his family were present during the war and a lot of them fought.
00:40 So, we do poppies and we wear poppies on the day, but we don't really go out and do parades and stuff.
00:46 It's just a small intimate get-together.
00:48 It does mean a lot because a lot of people fought for our country and lost their lives then, so it is quite a lot.
00:54 I think everyone in the world respects those who lost their lives for us.
01:00 I don't think we'd be as free as we are now if they didn't.
01:04 Put my poppy on. Important. Very important. Of course it is.
01:10 I mean, we should remember it all the time. They gave their lives, didn't they?
01:14 Forever and ever. Forever and ever.
01:16 And there's still going on wars, so we really need to keep up the tradition, don't we?
01:22 You know, my uncle died in the Somme and I go back to the First World War now.
01:26 And my uncle fought in the Second World War in Germany, so you've got to think of it, haven't you?
01:31 For us older people, yeah, definitely. Well, the younger people should remember, but they probably...
01:37 I think probably 50% of people don't observe the tomb in the silence, which is a shame.
01:44 I think so. Yeah, very important.
01:46 Especially with what's going on in the world now, out in Palestine and Gaza and that,
01:52 it's all too easy to forget past lessons. I think it's very important.
01:57 And on top of that, anyway, the thousands of people who died just to let us be able to walk down this street, yeah.
02:03 Yeah, exactly, exactly. I think the feelings are running really very strong now with what's going on in Gaza.
02:10 Very important. My husband and I always wear our poppy, obviously.
02:17 And I think if we don't remember them, who else will?
02:23 And especially as I think, certainly my age group, we've got family members and can remember them
02:28 who have died in the wars in the past. And I've had a son who's been in the army.
02:36 And it's terribly important that we remember them. Terribly important.
02:40 And if we don't keep celebrating it, it'll be one of those things, like a lot of things,
02:44 that will just disappear and nobody will care. And that's what it's all about, is caring.
02:49 Caring for what they did for us. And the only thing I can do for them is wearing a poppy
02:54 and sitting and thinking about them for an hour or so and watching a celebration,
02:59 in beauty commas, a celebration on a TV. That's the least I can do.
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