Isn’t Memorial Day the US equivalent of our Remembrance day?
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Isn’t Memorial Day the US equivalent of our Remembrance day?
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I got one got a couple in fact, always do, took my two kids to the local memorial over the weekend to tell them about it all and how important it is, but they are tiny (2 years & 9 weeks) I will always make sure they know about it, they will always know what it means and why its so important that we remember.
Memorial Day, last Monday in May, is to honor all our military who have died in battle. Veterans Day, November 11, (aka Remembrance Day) is to honor all military veterans, living and dead. Of course, Armistice Day, November 11, was to celebrate the end of the Great War (aka WWI).
Someone actually gave me mine this year, as I'd not got one the week before and was working at home all the week leading up.
I'd agree, to a degree, that it's become about being seen to do the 'right thing' these days.
I sometimes see people put money in the Legion pots but refuse a poppy, but at the same time we have press rants if someone is seen on TV without one in the weeks leading up to remembrance day.
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