Comments on: Today's Remembrance events – UK premiere of doc The Welcome at OccupyLSX

By: Clarence

Clarence — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:38:11 +0000

Thanks a bunch for finding the time to explain the terminlogy towards the newbies!

By: human of planet earth

human of planet earth — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:22:47 +0000

So thats ok then Roger is it, to just forget ?

Is your comment a serious one ?

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:17:59 +0000

No , the coverage is decreasing. You are falling victim to disinterest, just like Gen. Bill Slim’s “Forgotten Army” in Burma in WWII !

By: Vic

Vic — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:11:21 +0000

Read the Guardian seems to me their coverage is increasing-what are you frightened of.

By: T.H.

T.H. — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:42:19 +0000

Andy,

I support the protest.

My own uncle was in the RAF and got shot down on the very last day of WW2. I never knew him, but he knew me. His name is on a memorial at (IIRC) St Clements Dane church – the RAF church – at the far end of Fleet St from St Paul’s. I wear my poppy for him.

The man who would have been my father in law, should he have lived, got shot down somewhere over Germany, between the time my partner was conceived and when she was born. So she never know him. My partner is now 68 years old and is supportive of the protest.

By: Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:12:39 +0000

perhaps people have realised that although most of Occupy are well intentioned all they are doing is moaning about things, coming up with some ill informed solutions and expecting everyone else to implement the system that they want. If this is not to fade into nothing then Occupy need to do the hard work of forming a political party, generating policies and getting elected.

By: Roger

Roger — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:23:54 +0000

Obviously with a massive decrease in postings on this website interest in the movement is starting to wain. It appears that the organisers are running out of both steam and ideas ???

Egypt – total non-starter – see the comments !
Syria – non-starter, see the comments !

I realise that some individuals are desperate for the camp to continue,for their own reasons, but in all honesty it is time to pack-up and get out of town. I am “cringing” when I see the events and comments of the past few days. Do not turn the protest into a farce & do not turn the commentary into a mud slinging match between 4-5 persons, (you all know who they are). Better to leave “remembered” than to become an unwanted, irrelevant embarrassment.

By: Jonni

Jonni — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:28:30 +0000

What do ‘you people’ need to ‘get over’?

Why is it ‘disgusting and disrespectful’ for the occupation to remain at St Pauls?

By: Meg Howarth

Meg Howarth — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:56:30 +0000

A reading of Wilfred Owen’s: (The old Lie) Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. http://english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Dulce.html would be a moving start to the evening.

One of the last veterans, Harry Patch, who campaigned at the end of his life (died 2009, aged 111 years and 38 days) would surely have approved. In July 2007, marking the 90th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Passchendaele, in which he fought, and on revisiting the site in Flanders to pay his respects to the fallen on both sides of the conflict: Patch described war as the “calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings” and said that “war isn’t worth one life.”[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Patch – lest we and Andy, above, forget.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:51:37 +0000

“As part of Occupy London’s events…”? Stop trying to make it sound like a friendly, organised gathering. You lot need to get a life and get over it like the “99%” of us. It would be far better to show respect this weekend by leaving St Paul’s altogether. Staying there is disgusting and very disrespectful.