petition for a National Remembrance Day

[Carbonel]

petitions.pm.gov.uk/remembermonday/

I think it's very odd that it isn't a holiday. I grew up with it as one ( in Canada) and certainly in the UK it would have been

I THOUGHT it certainly would have been

I'm not sure I agree actually. I feel Remembrance Sunday is the 'main event' anyway and serves the purpose of remembering and commemorating. To be honest, in the years when Remembrance Sunday doesn't fall on the 11th November, virtually everywhere still observes the silence (shops, businesses, public buildings etc), so it's a very definite commemoration still. I don't think making it a public holiday would make it any more important. To me, Remembrance Sunday IS a national remembrance day.

that's true. I guess growing up with it as a holiday I find it odd that it isn't on the 11 nov (but on the closest sunday)

"holiday" to me isnt the correct word.

yes does sound odd thinking about it

agree with portonovo

making it like any other bank holiday or whatever might well demean it.. remembrance sunday is the day that we all stop and pay our respects and remember..