General Chat

No it isn't wrong thinking on my behalf Sylvia, it's something that happens and it has nothing to do with me being a Christian to be honest. Even this week I have read about 'Remembrance Day being over for another year'.


It's a bit like Christmas when we are glad that it is all over and done with and we can revert to our normal routines.


In the past, I have been guilty of removing my poppy almost as soon as I got home and thinking that that's another Remembrance Day over and done with once more, but my attitude has altered as I have grown older. I would be quite happy if the poppy were to remain on here for just a few days after 11th.


On the thread I have equated the fact that, whilst the modern day military personnel may have some better care than 100 years ago, there are still a lot of improvements needed.


Hope that clarifies my point. :-)

No it isn't wrong thinking on my behalf Sylvia, it's something that happens and it has nothing to do with me being a Christian to be honest. Even this week I have read about 'Remembrance Day being over for another year'.


It's a bit like Christmas when we are glad that it is all over and done with and we can revert to our normal routines.


In the past, I have been guilty of removing my poppy almost as soon as I got home and thinking that that's another Remembrance Day over and done with once more, but my attitude has altered as I have grown older. I would be quite happy if the poppy were to remain on here for just a few days after 11th.


On the thread I have equated the fact that, whilst the modern day military personnel may have some better care than 100 years ago, there are still a lot of improvements needed.


Hope that clarifies my point. :-)

No it isn't wrong thinking on my behalf Sylvia, it's something that happens and it has nothing to do with me being a Christian to be honest. Even this week I have read about 'Remembrance Day being over for another year'.


It's a bit like Christmas when we are glad that it is all over and done with and we can revert to our normal routines.


In the past, I have been guilty of removing my poppy almost as soon as I got home and thinking that that's another Remembrance Day over and done with once more, but my attitude has altered as I have grown older. I would be quite happy if the poppy were to remain on here for just a few days after 11th.


On the thread I have equated the fact that, whilst the modern day military personnel may have some better care than 100 years ago, there are still a lot of improvements needed.


Hope that clarifies my point. :-)

Caroline .... you are correct for ONTARIO, although it is a day off in most other provinces ..........

BC comes immediately to mind!

This is from Google ............

Remembrance Day is a federal statutory holiday - with a notable exception of NS, NWT, ON and QC - as it is in many other countries

so 7 out of the 10 provinces and 2 Territories have it as a stat holiday.

One little point Sylvia, it's not a Federal holiday but Provincial. Government workers etc get the day off but schools etc are open.

You are right Sylvia, I should have said Remembrance Sunday or Remembrance Day whichever is the later.

Kense .........


Remembrance Day is ALWAYS on November 11.

It is only the UK that may hold its celebrations/remembrances on any other date around the 11th.

November 11 is a Federal Holiday in Canada and other countries, and that is the only day on which any remembrances are held at Cenotaphs.



Cynthia ...............

just because the tradition here is to either leave your poppy at a Cenotaph or on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier if in Ottawa, and that we remove the poppy usually on the next day does NOT mean that we only think of those who have been lost on that day.

That's wrong thinking on your behalf!!

We don't have to be practising Christians (or any other religion) to remember what all soldiers went through AFTER they returned.

You only have to think of those who served in more recent wars who are committing suicide after returning from Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. AND practically nothing is being done for them in most countries, even now.


Perhaps opera companies in the UK, the BBC etc should be charged with representing the relatively new opera called Silent Night around Remembrance Day next year. It's a very powerful reminder of the first Christmas Eve of WW1 when the men from opposite sides met on the battlefield on an impromptu stop fire, Combined with a Symposium based on what is being done down for our veterans would be an EXTREMELY powerful reminder of those who live on the streets, commit suicide, etc.

Google it


We're lucky in Canada, compassionate people have set up various programmes that are really helping veterans, who then go on to help their comrades. I understand the UK has no such programmes.

On the Christian thread I mention how, just because Remembrance Day is over, should we simply forget about it until next year?

When a loved one dies, do we forget about them as soon as the funeral is over?

Life after Armistice Day was tough for both the returning soldiers and the bereaved. We have been looking at just how hard life actually was.

I will respectfully remove the poppy from my coat at the weekend.

AFAIK May is still there but the Poppy and Raaab have gone.

Last year the baubles came on 1st December and went at the end of the 5th January.

The Poppy & the PM might vanish at the same time.

It is possibly set to go automatically at midnight on 14th/15th November each year. The 14th being the latest day on which Remembrance Day can occur.

(edited to avoid ambiguity)

so it has!!

That happened between when I last looked soon after Motown's post and when Lottiesgran posted then!

The poppy has gone

Ah, thank you Elizabeth.

The Marigold is India equivalent of our Poppy

We went to visit Shrouds of the Somme, an installation at the Olympic Village, yesterday.

It was amazing how many had left poppies, and marigolds (I don't know the significance of them) next to models.

Made it all the more poignant.

I see the following week out wearing mine and usualy remove it the next Sat/Sun

.our local town hall leave those places on the green till the following weekend as people like to go view them through the week,,usually full of the wooden ones.many older people sit and just look at them away from the crowds..

There are no rules regarding the poppy. Doubtless if GR had deleted the poppy on the 12th there would have been cries of 'well they didn't waste any time did they'.

Probably swap it for christmas bells or something..

:-D