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Harley
2007-11-11, 05:34 PM
Trust we will all take a moment to remember our respective countries soldiers sacrifices

"Lest We Forget"
thejdw
2007-11-11, 05:48 PM
Dam, forgot. Well I'll dedicate this post to all the soldiers who fought.
amanda.gallacher
2007-11-11, 06:46 PM
How could you forget about remembrance day? Miss all the people selling / wearing poppys? Not watched TV in a while? Not seen this thread? (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65616)
thejdw
2007-11-11, 09:56 PM
How could you forget about remembrance day? Miss all the people selling / wearing poppys? Not watched TV in a while? Not seen this thread? (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65616)
I remembered the day, I just forgot about the silence
johnfoss
2007-11-12, 06:09 AM
Is that an official UK holiday? We have Veterans' Day, apparently on the same date (it's still Sunday for me). Many Americans get the day off. We also have Memorial Day at the end of May, always on a Monday. Almost everybody gets the day off. I'm not an expert, but I believe Memorial Day is for all the dead soldiers, and Veterans' Day is for the ones that are alive. Expect them to be more likely to notice if you're honoring them.
kington99
2007-11-12, 09:28 AM
It's not a holiday, but an official day of rememberance. As the big ceremonies are on the closest Sunday (which just happens to fall on the 11th this year) making it a holiday wouldn't make much difference.
cathwood
2007-11-12, 10:16 AM
It's not a holiday, but an official day of rememberance. As the big ceremonies are on the closest Sunday (which just happens to fall on the 11th this year) making it a holiday wouldn't make much difference.

Well maybe. But is it only on a Sunday because it's not a holiday? Is not having a public holiday on rememberance day testemony to how important (or not) our great leaders feel it is to rember the people who died because the government told them to fight?

It just made me think.
Hazmat
2007-11-12, 10:47 AM
Well maybe. But is it only on a Sunday because it's not a holiday? Is not having a public holiday on rememberance day testemony to how important (or not) our great leaders feel it is to rember the people who died because the government told them to fight?

It just made me think.
Me 2. :confused:
Borgschulze
2007-11-12, 02:15 PM
I walked 5 blocks to school out of 20 today and remembered there was no school. :rolleyes: