Veterans For Peace UK
1 h ยท BREAKING THE SILENCEThe two minutes’ silence on Armistice Day was first interrupted in 1920 by none other than 10,000 veterans, impoverished, starving & betrayed by a government & a capitalist system that erased their sacrifice for profit. They’d gathered in Victoria Street, parallel with Whitehall. When the new Cenotaph was unveiled they jeered.One eye witness remembered seeing, “at the first Remembrance Sunday, hundreds of old comrades held up their Army Discharge book as a salute of disgust at the slaughter of the thousands of young men in the mud of Flanders”And again “In November 1921 a vast demonstration of 25,000 unemployed soldiers marched on the Cenotaph to place a wreath inscribed: “From the living victims – the unemployed – to our dead comrades who died in vain.” The men wore pawn tickets instead of medals on their lapels.”