Two minutes silence?
Today, I observed the two minutes silence for the victims of the London bombings on 7th July 2005 and I got to thinking.
Why do these people get two minutes?
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that the victims shouldn’t get two minutes, I just don’t understand why, say, the vicitms of the 2nd World War only get one minute?
According to Wikipedia, 62 million people lost their lives during the 2nd World War, they were fighting for our freedom, being put through the most terrifying moments of their lives only to have it ended by a enemy bullet, and their bravery and courage marked, often, whith nothing more than a white wooden cross. Yet, these people only get one minute.
The First World War yielded a death-toll of 66 million (this includes deaths attributed to Spanish Flu) and these people are hardly even remembered!
This isn’t to mention the fact that millions of people were the victim of Genocide; the Peoples Republic of China, Rowanda, Cambodia. How about all the people who died in concentration camps?
How about people who died of natural disaster? Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Tornados and volcanoes?
All these people are, in some way, innocent and yet, do they all get two minutes silence to mark the day they died, while they were busy being innocent?
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