With today being Remembrance Day, we went out onto the streets of Manchester to ask people why this day was important for them.
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00:00Hi I'm Theo and this is People on the Street. Today I'm out in Manchester asking people about
00:03Remembrance Day which is today. Now wherever you go in Manchester today you'll see people
00:08wearing poppies and remembering those that lost their lives in the First World War, the Second
00:12World War and many conflicts since. So we want to know what makes it a special day for them,
00:17why they think it's important that we celebrate it and if there's someone in particular that comes
00:21to mind on this day. Oh it's mega important, it really is because as I said without it
00:27you wouldn't be there, I wouldn't be here and if we were here I'm sure we wouldn't have the freedom
00:32that we've got. I think for me it's probably been more important last few years with
00:38what's going on now like obviously it's realistically war could happen again and
00:43you'd want that kind of devotion again essentially to be set to real life.
00:49Yeah with respect the two minute silence it's not something that I do anything towards other
00:54than the two minute silence but yeah it's not like something I, it's not like as big a day I
01:00know that it is for other people. Well I think Remembrance Day is important to celebrate because
01:06without them we wouldn't be where we are now yeah without those people that died we wouldn't be here
01:10now but the only thing that gets my goat about Remembrance Day they never talk, I've seen all
01:15the plaques and everything in the everywhere they never talk about the West Indies. To me my grandma
01:23on my mum's side she lived in Salford and she'd tell me stories obviously during the time of the
01:29blitz of them getting under the dining room table like obviously in Manchester in kind of the slums
01:35they didn't have like bomb shelters things like that so I think even though it's not our reality
01:39it feels very much like reality because of the people that you've grown up with. I think it's
01:44important and also like I completely respect and understand why it's so very important for some
01:49people. I also understand why some people have less interest in it as well. I feel like I'm very
01:54much in the position of like I think it's important but like maybe it's not as important for me as it
01:59is for the people.