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Michael O'Leary said:And the point I have been trying to get across, which some have wildly chosen to ignore, is that simply changing the flag (or anything else) based on some antecedent that hardly any serving member remembers firsthand may equally be seen by newer members as "change for the sake of change." They need to be sold on the idea in a current context - not because it "fixes" a tiny piece of something that happened before most of them were born.
I'm sorry but this statement could be used against you and your regiment or current members there of. Perhaps you should re-think/word it.
If we have no tie to the past where does that leave us ?
Why do the RCR still fly battle honors from a battle that has no living participants left anymore ?
Remember the the Navy didn't get the "Royal" prefix just for cocktail parties and pretty white shoes. It was a honor that was earned in blood, sweat and tears, and that honor was striped for no valid reason. It does a dishonor to those who came before us to let this go on further with out so much as a fight. Have no doubt the vast vast majority retired members of the old RCN would have no issue with the Royal coming back to our name. I would also hazard a guess that the current Naval members would either be indifferent or be supportive of the move.
Michael O'Leary said:Change isn't bad. But change which doesn't make sense to those who experience it can turn into a bitter experience - exactly like that which so many are still rending their clothes over every time something like this comes up. It's not a Navy thing - it's an establishment thing, and if we can't break the pattern of how we engineer change, then we're not fixing anything, we're just creating the potential for a new festering problem for the next generation to fight over.
I really don't know where to begin. Your basically writing off all connection the present Navy has with its past because few of us were around for the end of the RCN ? I don't think you understand how much of what we still do is so deeply rooted in the old pre-unification Navy.
This is a Naval issue, all stop both engines.