No 10 Petition for a National Remembrance Day
Guys. This seems like a good cause. Create a new public holiday on the Monday after Rememberance Sunday. If you agree you can sign up here:
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Won't this just be exploited by the resident morons as an opportunity to get p!ssed on Sunday and/or go shopping on the Monday at the outlet centre?
I think 11 Nov does the job - people know what Remembrance Day is, even if they don't do anything to mark it. |
Dallas,
My, you've got an old-fashioned view of our priorities |
I was abroad last year for Armistice Day and everything in Belgium came to a complete halt. No shops, no petrol stations - absolutely nothing was open (not sure about the pubs). They observe the 11th no matter what day of the week it falls on and if it should happen to be a Sunday then they take the Monday off as well as a day in lieu.
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Originally Posted by 6Z3
it's a public holiday between Aug and Dec
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Originally Posted by Impiger
I was abroad last year for Armistice Day and everything in Belgium came to a complete halt. No shops, no petrol stations - absolutely nothing was open (not sure about the pubs). They observe the 11th no matter what day of the week it falls on and if it should happen to be a Sunday then they take the Monday off as well as a day in lieu.
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Impinger, the Belgiques take all public holidays seriously. I experienced one, only things open were Florists so you could place flowers in the cemetaries and the restaurants.
If we had a public holiday like that for Remembrance then I would agree. Since Sunday is now almost like Saturday, except you can't buy booze in a Supermarket after 4pm, what chance a Monday? A public holiday on 11/11 with no shops open would certainly concentrate the minds of the forgetful. |
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