How do you observe Armistice day?

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Armistice Day is observed all across the world, and for many people it is an important remembrance period. We’re in Cardiff speaking to people about how they mark armistice day, their messages of memory and whether it’s still as important to people nowadays as it has been in the past.

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00:00Me, personally, yeah, because I might be biased, but I'm joining the army soon, so it's important

00:08to me and my dad was in the army, so it's quite an emotional day for me, especially

00:15when I go up to Santa Taf and stuff on Remembrance Sunday. Yeah, it gets me emotional. So, yeah,

00:24I think it should be more important to people.

00:27Yeah, I think you're right. It's to commemorate loss, isn't it? Not celebrate winning. No

00:32one wins a war, you know? So many people die. No one wins that.

00:37And also, you know, because I know we've had the First World War, Second World War, then

00:42we had Afghanistan, we had the Falklands. I mean, I'm not British, but still, I think

00:49it's very important for all those young men and women that go to war in all the countries,

00:55not just in the UK, but around Europe.

01:00It's not those two conflicts that we all knew over the past 10, 15 years, but yeah,

01:05there's British troops, there's service people from every nation, our allies who are still

01:09in danger, but yeah, I mean, quite rightly, people have their everyday worries to think

01:14about, so yeah, maybe it's not quite as visible in the news, but I think on the whole, if

01:18you speak to people, they will sort of bring up stories about people they know, family

01:21and that sort of thing.

01:22Not very much, I think it's good that we recognise it for our local communities or

01:27what they sacrifice and everything else, so I think it's very important that the 11 o'clock,

01:31I know for our businesses, that we all stopped as well, so it's, we're very passionate about

01:36it, so the families and history that we've had, so very proud of it.

01:40Yeah, I'm a veteran, I served for eight years in the British Army, so I'm proud to have

01:44completed a couple of operational tours and I've seen the cost of serving, but yeah, I

01:48still think it's incredibly worthwhile and something, you know, the modern world needs

01:52more and more, but yeah, it's important, I think, all days, but especially today, to

01:56take a moment and think about those who've given everything.

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