Jeremy Corbyn stays behind following Remembrance Sunday ceremony to applaud WWII veterans
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/remembrance-sunday-jeremy-corbyn-skipped-vip-lunch-to-stay-behind-after-ceremony-and-applaud-wwii-a6726591.html
Pictures have emerged of Jeremy Corbyn quietly paying his respects to WWII veterans on Remembrance Sunday.
On the same day that the Labour leader was widely criticised for showing disrespect for apparently not bowing properly, the images show Mr Corbyn stood next to the railings applauding as veterans march past at the Cenotaph in central London.
(Note...at a second Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the Cenotaph, Corbyn read the poem "Futility", by Wilfrid Owen, the British soldier-poet who died November 4th, 1918, a week before the Armistice. In the poem, a group of soldiers moved a fallen comrade-in-arms into the sun in hopes of reviving him, not realizing the soldier is already dead).
Move him into the sun—
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields half-sown.
Always it woke him, even in France,
Until this morning and this snow.
If anything might rouse him now
The kind old sun will know.
Think how it wakes the seeds,—
Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides,
Full-nerved—still warm—too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
—O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth’s sleep at all?
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