Is it disrespectful to release fireworks on Remembrance Day?

[TheOriginalEmu]

A bit of an argument on my local Facebook page, a former soldier posted a couple of days ago that it would be nice if people could not set off fireworks today in respect of Remembrance Day.
Someone did set off a couple as they said it was their grandfathers birthday who passed away this year, and it was a way to mark the occasion. Cue a ton of posts calling the person setting them off a moron and rude and disrespectful etc etc

Now, I’m no fan of fireworks, the noise terrifies my autistic child, it upsets my dog a fair bit and I don’t at all understand why they need to be so bloody loud when they don’t need to be.

However, I don’t understand what is inherently disrespectful about fireworks on Remembrance Day? Is this a thing that people generally observe that I’ve somehow not noticed in 45 years on the planet? Or is this just something one person thinks shouldn’t happen and all these other people have jumped on the bandwagon?

Do you think it’s disrespectful today?

It’s the penultimate day of Diwali.

Festival of Light. The celebration of light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance.

Are people seriously saying members of the third largest religion in the world should not celebrate their greatest festival?

Maybe Diwali is something some MNers need to celebrate.

I hate fireworks and think they should be banned, but I don’t think there’s any more of an issue with using them today than any other day.

People seem to set them off from Halloween through to New Year. I’ve heard some this evening.

I find it amusing that we are remembering people that gave their lives so that people could express themselves, freedom of speech etc. to be told that people can't do something because someone else finds it disrespectful..

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However this weekend is Diwali. Anyone annoyed by fireworks today will be very, very annoyed tomorrow.

I agree with others who say setting fireworks off during the minutes of silence would be disrespectful but beyond that life goes on.

Remembrance day and armistice day has been weaponised now. So much arguing about how your a bad person if you don't wear a poppy etc etc

The thread is a couple of years old

I don't see anything disrespectful

I do this the extension of the fireworks season is a bit shit for pets and very shit for wildlife.

But this weekend is Diwali (a moveable feast, does not always fall around 11/11) and I expect there will be fireworks and that is fine.

And no one complains about the Lord Mayor holding his Show on the day before Remembrance Sunday every single year, even though that is definitely celebratory

I don't think survivors of WW1 will worry about fireworks these days.

I really only think it would be disrespectful during the silence.