{"id":18553,"date":"2025-04-27T21:32:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T11:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/?p=18553"},"modified":"2025-04-28T14:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:54:24","slug":"remembrance-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inkcinct.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/remembrance-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance today."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"18553\" class=\"elementor elementor-18553\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d1ff562 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d1ff562\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-61b14b6\" data-id=\"61b14b6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb0e8c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bb0e8c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4>It seems to me that over the last twenty years Remembrance ceremonies have become increasingly politicised with a subtle undercurrent promoting nationalistic jingoism that runs counter to the original aims of remembering those who served and died in the wars that Australia has been involved in.<br \/><br \/><\/h4><h4>I am not a pacifist, I believe that our armed forces should be the best trained and equipped that money can buy and that armed forces personnel should be treated with respect and honoured, but remembrance like the armed forces themselves should be politically neutral.<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e06f5e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e06f5e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>CARTOON REFERENCE NUMBER:\u00a0 2025-17<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to me that over the last twenty years Remembrance ceremonies have become increasingly politicised with a subtle undercurrent promoting nationalistic jingoism that runs counter to the original aims of remembering those who served and died in the wars that Australia has been involved in. 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