and what percentage of the great unwashed would even recognise out of step?
I attended the Menin Gate ceremony about a month ago: a fine squad of ATC lads and lasses, gleaming, bursting with pride, absolutely straining to get things perfect [99%], wreath laying etc in teams of three.
Followed by an assorted sack of sh1t of scruffy, unkempt, probably unwashed, shifty, embarrassed, apologetic, slouching grotty turn off of the yoof of today.
It would have been much kinder to reverse the order of the ceremony.
Just appreciate what we have, while mourning for what we have lost.