Watching television coverage of the remembrance service to mark the July 7 London bombings, which included observing a minute of silence, I wondered what has happened to the ‘traditional’ two-minute silence.

Do we now live such busy lives and in such a rush that we cannot spare two minutes to remember the dead?

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