This year, as for all years past, many of those who died fighting will not have their representative at London's Cenotaph. Yet for some time now the humanists have asked for their representative to stand alongside those from the country's religions at the official ceremony. They are, after all, the second largest belief group in the Armed Forces after Christianity. Other cities already accept their presence: Edinburgh, Belfast, Sheffield and Birmingham among them. But so far they have been kept away from the major national monument in Whitehall.
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