Repost, but still pretty valid.

[shaysdays]

I don't know about Veteran's Day where you are, where I live it is mostly
having served in the military, not dying in battle or going to

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[bopeepsheep]

Yeah, here it's only really about the dead of the two big wars, and, in more recent years, smaller conflicts like the Gulf wars. We started observing Remembrance Day specifically because of the huge impact the Great War had on Western Europe (hence using Armistice Day as the date). We don't have Memorial Day at all, nor do we have an equivalent of Veterans Day.

We should, really, but until 1982 we didn't really have much outside of the two World Wars to observe - our part in the Korean War is usually underplayed, to the point where lots of Britons don't know we were even there - and so many of our population were involved in WWII, given wartime conscription and the war work done by those not in uniform, that it would be a bit weird celebrating the entire population over the age of x.

[shaysdays]

http://shaysdays.livejournal.com/310903.html?thread=1272951#t1272951

:P

I'm too lazy (read: ACK TODAY IS A NIGHTMARE OF THINGS TO DO!) to change it to be more global, I guess.

[bopeepsheep]

I had this slightly surreal moment of deja vu when typing; this explains it. :)