Is Remembrance Day dead? I don't think so. I think there's a mild resurgence of respect.
Just came from the ceremony at Toronto's Old City hall. My impression is that it is better attended then previous years, and echoing another post here I see more poppies on the street, or so it seems. I was doubly impressed that many people around me sang the National Anthem. They may have been very quiet about it, sort of under their breath, but it was there and I was proud of them. Now I was a kid back when the National Anthem would play at movies and people would stand up sing...that' s a long time ago. I'll bet if the choir had sung the English stanza and French stanza's in their entirety, rather then a confusing French English mix, more would have been singing.
I was very pleased to hear, the union here at work was having a meeting and they stopped for a minute of silence. That was unexpected and very respectful.
I do wonder how remembrance may change once the Great War armistice passes it's 100th anniversary. WW2 is also getting distant in memory, and later conflicts, for whatever reasons, are not firmly in the public's view as grand or noble sacrifices.
