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Thursday 11 November, 02004

by Matthew Bartlett @ 9:45 pm

Today I heard very beautiful brass band music from the Army Band in the parade for the Unknown Soldier. Later in the war memorial building the small cadets and calvinettes got quite silent for the first time.

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  1. david says:

    the cadets were on tv.

    interesting article in the Maxim email today. It’s sad and ironic that many of the things this soldier would have fought for (“basic democratic freedoms, marriage, family, the importance and care of children, and moral and spiritual values”) is being legally undermined by the government who is praising this man.

  2. I wholeheartedly agree with a repsonse made to that article by someone on the Maxim forum:

    This is an outrageous piece that is simple posturing, and an attempt to utilise the event to advance Maxim’s own agenda – much more baldly than any political manipulation I’ve noticed. But I guess part of the beauty of appealing to the dead is you can more or less invoke their sacrifice for whatever cause you like – if you have the cheek.

    I disagree about the extent and significance of our alleged “confusion” about military issues. Surely preparing to defend, while working against the grotesque culture of war and munitions is an eminently sensible, life-affirming balance that recognises the complexity of the issue. Don’t forget that many WWI veterans were ardent advocates of disarmament in the 1920s and 30s.

  3. jono says:

    Must say that piece composed for the march was actually quite cool, it was full of somber jubilant militantness

  4. Tim says:

    I agree with that too Matt. Maxim make me laugh sometimes.
    Also, did the Cadets get ‘quite’ silent or ‘quiet’ silent?

  5. Jono yeah that was a hot piece, and they played it tight as tight. At first I didn’t even know it was brass. Churs for the typo Tim.

  6. ru says:

    Matt with regard to Mmmammon and such and Yvonnes discourse about post modernism etcetcetcetcetcblahblahblahblah has she perhaps read about Norman Cousins approach to life :-)
    He had anklosing spondylitis in 1964 and obviously a love of the Marx Bros.
    Mmmmmmmmm guess it doesn’t have much to do with Postmodernism but its interesting.And maybe we should all read Hans Selye’s book “The Stress of life”

  7. Thanks ru I’ve added those two authors to my ‘to read’ big list.

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