Dear Editor,
As another Armistice Day, (Veterans Day) or Remembrance Day approaches we will all gather around the Cenotaph to pay homage to those who served in global wars and those who made the ultimate sacrifice with their lives.
I have journeyed to this War Memorial site for many years, first with my father as a small boy, then as a Boy Scout, then as a member of the Queens College Cadet Corps, and later as a member of the British Guiana Volunteer Force ‘A’ Company.
Earlier we were taught by our British teachers that the event was supposed to be held at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Further, the hour should be local time.
However, as British subjects (not citizens), we picked the eleventh hour of London.
With President Brigadier David Granger’s penchant for history he and the cabinet may wish to ponder this question.
Should it be the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month as was intended by those who came up with the idea in the first place?
Yours faithfully,
Hamilton Green
