Armistice Day

[ladyofastolat]

As far as I remember, Armistice Day itself wasn't commemorated when I was young, with everything happening on Remembrance Sunday instead. I can't remember any two minutes' silences ever happening on a weekday at school. My memory puts the widespread marking of Armistice Day as distinct from Remembrance Sunday as a thing that has only started (or restarted) in the last ten to fifteen years. No-one at work agrees with me - though they don't actively disagree, either, just say they can't remember. Am I misrembering things? The only evidence I've found on a quick online search is that the two minute silence on Armistice Day was stopped during World War 2, so as not to interfere with wartime producation, and moved to Remembrance Sunday, but clearly this isn't relevant to my memories of the 70s and 80s.

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[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, now that you mention it, I remember it with the Brownies. I remember how cold it was standing outside for so long in those short little 1970s Brownies uniforms and no coat.

[squonk79.livejournal.com]

Yes! Though mine was in the 80's, the uniform was the same crappy thin dress. And the Beavers and the Cubs had nice jumpers, we got a bobble hat.

That all changed once i was in St John's, we had nice thick woolly jumpers (like the old military ones with lapels and elbow patches, only black). But we spent most of the parade time dealing with fainters and frozens from other organisations. Oddly, the Boy's Brigade were the worst group for fainters...