...to ask if Remembrance Sunday is about fallen service people, or a general thing?

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I am just a bit confused. I honorably mark Remebrance Sunday each year having lost a lot of family members in a number of conflicts and completely get why we all should.

What I don't really understand though is this apparent trend as per some discussions in the media, including here, that 11/11 or the closest Sunday should also be about anyone you have lost, such as those to illness etc.

I am not trying to jibe, really not, but am just wondering when the overriding sentiment of the occasion has changed, as most people I know view it as primarily a service to remember those who have died in wars. When did this happen? Or have I just misunderstood some things in the news?

I don't think it's a general thing at all; it's specifically for service personnel who have given their lives in battles, in the world wars and the more current times

at no time over the last few days have I heard any TV thing mention anyone who wasn't involved in the Forces in some way or another.

Not sure where the idea that it's just for a general remembering of all that have died came from?

Definitely for those who have died in conflict. To honour them and also so that we do not forget the lessons we can hopefully learn from war.

huh ?

I haven't seen it being co-opted for more general remembrance stuff, no

I would support that, of course, but not to tag it onto specific mourning for fallen servicemen

Thanks everyone. I think I might have conflated several conversations I overheard today with a thread from here also today which suggested it was becoming more of a general remebrance thing, which just felt a bit odd to me and a bit of a dilution about what services today are about. Glad to hear I've either misunderstood or that this isn't a widespread thing.

never heard of this op?

where have you heard it?

thebody A piece on local news on TV, via one of the earlier threads here which suggested it, and overhearing a group of twenty somethings in the pub. Thought I had maybe misunderstood all three, confirmation here would suggest that's correct, thanks all.

All Souls was last weekend. There are two weeks ish in the CofE calendar for remembrance - All Saints and All Souls, then Remembrance, which is those in the forces and services inc Fire, Police, Ambulance, Coast Guard as well I think.

I have seen a few things on FB today that have made me think the same OP. A few people posted pics of loved ones that have passed on that to my knowledge have never served nor died in service.

I suppose though who am I to judge when these people should and should not remember but I have to say I would not be kind connecting the 2 personally myself.

Life is too short and precious for me to get my knickers in too much of a twist about this. Loss is loss and grief is grief. I am only human though have been more offended this week with other stuff people have said and done to do with remembrance.

Isn't it also for civilians who died during the war like in the Blitz? Or only those in uniform?

not sure op but to be honest but death too soon is awful however it comes.

Not civilians, but military and civilian servicemen and women.