banana chewits wrote:it's a grey area, marking the anniversary every year. aberfan was a bigger disaster wrt lives lost & most of them were children, but that's rarely mentioned unless it's a major anniversary like the 50th in 2016.
grenfell could be the 'lest we forget' of inadequate social housing maintenance, so you could argue it ought to be remembered every year for that reason.
Dimples wrote:I do think it's appropriate to mark the one year anniversary of such an appalling event - and to do so in a significant and meaningful manner. I think in subsequent years though, it's probably more fitting to confine such memorialisation to a more local audience, if they wish to do so.
We don't tend to go in for a designated period of x days of national mourning after a major tragedy, as happens in a lot of other countries though.
Trapper John wrote:In contrast, if you look at the list of victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, you could just as well be looking at the passenger manifest of a refugee boat which sank somehwere in the Med.
We don't hold vigils and have outpourings of national grief for those unfortunates, so why do some people think we should feel any different because they happened to have been living in a Tower block in London?
Grenfell was a tragic accident, one which could have happened anywhere - we were all suitably horrified at the time do we need to keep pouring salt on the wounds, which if we are honest is being done now mainly for political and financial reasons?
Trapper John wrote:Dimples wrote:I do think it's appropriate to mark the one year anniversary of such an appalling event - and to do so in a significant and meaningful manner. I think in subsequent years though, it's probably more fitting to confine such memorialisation to a more local audience, if they wish to do so.
We don't tend to go in for a designated period of x days of national mourning after a major tragedy, as happens in a lot of other countries though.
Did you stand quietly in thought for a minute on Thursday?
Dimples wrote:Trapper John wrote:In contrast, if you look at the list of victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, you could just as well be looking at the passenger manifest of a refugee boat which sank somehwere in the Med.
We don't hold vigils and have outpourings of national grief for those unfortunates, so why do some people think we should feel any different because they happened to have been living in a Tower block in London?
Grenfell was a tragic accident, one which could have happened anywhere - we were all suitably horrified at the time do we need to keep pouring salt on the wounds, which if we are honest is being done now mainly for political and financial reasons?
It doesn't matter. The unnecessary losses of their lives are just as significant. The marking of the loss of the lives at Grenfell takes place because they took place in British soil and presumably as some responsibility for their fate has to be borne by this country - albeit at a local level.
Dimples wrote:Trapper John wrote:Dimples wrote:I do think it's appropriate to mark the one year anniversary of such an appalling event - and to do so in a significant and meaningful manner. I think in subsequent years though, it's probably more fitting to confine such memorialisation to a more local audience, if they wish to do so.
We don't tend to go in for a designated period of x days of national mourning after a major tragedy, as happens in a lot of other countries though.
Did you stand quietly in thought for a minute on Thursday?
Well, I was here at home on my own so yes, I suppose I did - although I wasn't standing. I always have a bit of a reflective spell on 14 Jun anyway as it is the anniversary of my own father's death - now 16 years ago.
If I had been out and about in a public place where the minute's silence was being observed, then I would have stopped and participated, as I usually do. It does no harm.
Trapper John wrote:Dimples wrote:Trapper John wrote:Dimples wrote:I do think it's appropriate to mark the one year anniversary of such an appalling event - and to do so in a significant and meaningful manner. I think in subsequent years though, it's probably more fitting to confine such memorialisation to a more local audience, if they wish to do so.
We don't tend to go in for a designated period of x days of national mourning after a major tragedy, as happens in a lot of other countries though.
Did you stand quietly in thought for a minute on Thursday?
Well, I was here at home on my own so yes, I suppose I did - although I wasn't standing. I always have a bit of a reflective spell on 14 Jun anyway as it is the anniversary of my own father's death - now 16 years ago.
If I had been out and about in a public place where the minute's silence was being observed, then I would have stopped and participated, as I usually do. It does no harm.
So you didn't specifically for the Grenfell victims, neither did I and I suspect we are not alone, despite what the media and interested parties would have us believe.
Dimples wrote: I always have a bit of a reflective spell on 14 Jun anyway as it is the anniversary of my own father's death - now 16 years ago.
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