It has become the practise for people to clap at funerals and rememberance parades. Maybe I should move with the times but this does not seem to me to be the appropriate response. Surely a dignified silence is the appropriate mark of respect at a funeral.
I suppose people feel that it isn't enough to stand silently and that they need to mark their respect with an outward show.
I suppose people feel that it isn't enough to stand silently and that they need to mark their respect with an outward show.