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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[bunn.livejournal.com]

That was my impression too - not that I've been to one for years, but most Armistice Day things I've been at have been outside and non-denominational, usually by the war memorial.

I went and forgot the silence today, I was just leaving a shop and nobody said anything, I only realised the time when I started the car and the radio was silent. *is guilty*.