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posted by [identity profile] daisho.livejournal.com at 04:54pm on 30/10/2006
Yes, they're different events. November 11 is Armistice Day, marking the end of the First World War specifically, but expanded to commemorate other war dead as well. Remembrance Sunday is scheduled as you say -- Here's a bit of info on the difference.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 06:09pm on 30/10/2006
Thank you. Is Rememberance Sunday Christian-specific or more widely oberved? Your linked materuak didn't specify that it was, but I can't help but wonder.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 06:09pm on 30/10/2006
"materuak" --> "material"
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posted by [identity profile] daisho.livejournal.com at 10:04pm on 31/10/2006
I assumed as much. :)
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posted by [identity profile] lazyknight.livejournal.com at 06:39pm on 30/10/2006
I would guess Christian-specific, in as much as it's sunday and pretty much every UK church will have some kind of rememberance theme that day, but given the scope of the tributes and memorials laid out for the day, you'd have to be pretty hard hearted to avoid thinking it...
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posted by [identity profile] sollersuk.livejournal.com at 08:20pm on 30/10/2006
Up until WWII, Remembrance/Armistice Day was observed on November 11. After that, in order to reduce disruption to the working day, it shifted to Sunday and was observed by all - this was the day when the Two Minutes Silence at 11 am was observed, as well as ceremonies at local war memorials - laying of wreaths of poppies, particularly to commemmorate those whose bodies were never recovered or were buried a long way away.

Some years ago, the 11th fell on a Sunday, and since then it has become the practice to observe the Two Minutes Silence on the actual 11th again.
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posted by [identity profile] oursin.livejournal.com at 08:39pm on 30/10/2006
I am due to be giving a lecture at 11 on the 11th, lucky me.
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posted by [identity profile] cynicaloptimist.livejournal.com at 10:06pm on 30/10/2006
Only in that it comes from the religious services originally used for commemoration, which were Christian as we were a mostly Christian company. These days, they're much mor multicultural.
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posted by [identity profile] lazyknight.livejournal.com at 06:28pm on 30/10/2006
's'exactly what I was going to post, but I thought I'd check to see if someone else had first :-)
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