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This from the Guardian Online this morning:
"Across Britain, homes, factories and offices are expected to fall silent for a minute on 11 September exactly a year after the moment the first American Airlines plane hit the World Trade Centre in New York. In a rare move which reveals the importance of the date, the Government is to send out a 'national protocol' note in a next few days detailing how people should observe the silence. Such a move is executed only at times of national memorial, such as the marking of Remembrance Sunday. The minute's silence will begin at 1.46pm, the time that American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower. It is likely that a similar silence will be held in the US.
Although officials at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, the government office leading the plans for the anniversary, said that there would 'obviously be no compulsion' about observing the silence, it is expected that all government departments, the police, hospitals, schools and most companies will respect the call."
How generous of them not to make this compulsory. I'll be at work that day, and if anyone tries to tell me 'how to observe' a minute's silence (a tricky one, that!) they'll be told to fuck off, frankly. |
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