Grayson on 'Deafening Silence' of 11th Hour of 11th Month

12.00.00am GMT Wed 11th Nov 2009

Commenting on today's two minute silence at the Remembrance ceremony in Hemel Hempstead's Marlowes today, Dr Richard Grayson, who attended the event, said:

"In 1919, when the two minute silence was first held on at 11am on 11th November, there were reports of a 'deafening silence' across the UK. Apart from the occasional sound of tiny children, which nobody minds, it was like that in Hemel today as a large crowd paid their respects to the fallen of past wars, and those who continue to lose their lives in Afghanistan."