Lest we forget?

Can you believe it?
The world stops for a minutes silence at 11 o'clock, on the 11th day of the 11th month to remember the end of a war that changed the face of the world forever. In Australia, it is a time to remember all wars. It is a national day of remembrance, one that asks all Australians to remember for one minute the torment of war. Yet, in a measly office in Kew, some paper pusher decided that remembering the dead, the wounded and the affected of war, no matter what their nationality, was offensive. WHAT? And in lieu of this offence, employees of the company would not be observing a minute silence at 11 o'clock. WHAT? Well, themelbournebeat finds this offensive. It is ludicrous that anyone could even conjure the idea that a minutes silence on Remembrance Day would seek to offend anyone culture. If this dweeb knew anything about anything, he or she would realise that Remembrance Day is not a cultural festival or religious ideology. It is a multinational reflection on a war, or wars, which took the lives and destroyed many others, regardless of race, religion, culture, alliance or nationality. Vicroads... Vicshame...