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Well said Mau..the words from RMS has offended quite a few people including friends of mine that aew reading this thread that are not members of GR.

Well said Mau. I too find RMS comments offensive - and ignorant.

Very well said Mau :-)

What do you find strange?

In the county I live in there are two separate memorial services.One on November 11 and also on the Sunday nearest to the important date with 2 minutes silence at each.

As a daughter, a dil and a wife of long serving army men I have taken offence at your remarks that we don't 'celebrate' November 11th.
We, and our country, will always remember the fallen every day... not just once a year.

On the 11th in UK there will be an offical 2 min silence most observe it,and stop on pavements ,shops schools and many official offices......Sunday will see the parades taking part and televised parades from round the world.so many other countries also observe Sunday as rememberence day.

Nein

http://www.thirdreichruins.com/memorials.htm

Germany doesn't bother itself with such ceremonies.

11 Nov is a statutory day off in France, parades to the war memorial, wearing of blue badges, very big lunch, "where is the 8th company on TV" (funny war movie) and so on. Very little actual history on TV etc far too scratchy.
Unlike the UK, Anzac, USA or Canada France had the bitter experience of occupation, traitors ( in ww2 only one prefect, Jean Moulin, refused to support the Bosche) and large scale civilian deaths and destruction. The scars run deep.

From 1919 until 1945, Armistice Day observance was always on 11 November itself. It was then moved to the nearest Sunday because the silence caused problems in factories when machinery had to stop and then be restarted and output was lost at a time when Britain needed all the manufactured goods it could get.

After the 50th anniversary of WW2 ending there was lobbying to restore a silence to the 11th itself, while still maintaining the main commemoration for Remembrance Sunday. This is not so "observed" by the general public as the Sunday one, in my experience.

I would have thought they did it on a Sunday because most people didn't have to work... Now it is just another working day for most

see you anon :-)

not sure about that.....first it went Red.....then White......Then Blue




I have to go now. I work part time as a detective and I also need to feed my police dog.

I hear that a good surgeon might be able to stitch it back together again :-)

maybe!......I bit it so hard that I nearly bit it off.

oh dear


do hope you haven't done serious damage to your tongue ;-)

I just bit my tongue ;-)

like RMS ...............

I'm always amazed that you don't have the Cenotaph services and full observance on the date, but on the nearest Sunday



mind you, I think Canada must be the only country in the Commonwealth that has a a public holiday and statutory Day of Observance on November 11th, that is observed in all three territories and in six of the ten provinces (Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec being the exceptions).

Was reading that you had it on Sunday but that don't seem right as the war ended on the 11 not on a specific day.

What makes you think we don't, Shy?

Oh well, if you say so! :-S