Haven't see a thread about this yet. Maybe it's just a holiday in Canada, but I'm pretty sure most countries involved in WWI would have something similar. Just past the 11th hour so I figured I'd make a thread about it. So that there's actually something for you guys to talk about in this thread, I guess I'll set the topic to "does your country celebrate the end of the world wars around this time of year" or do you have a more significant war for your country that you guys celebrate ending. Just remeber to avoid controversial political issues.
Well, in France it was quite a sight to see most of the world leaders under the rain just to celebrate the end of the war. It was also quite boring to watch.
Don’t exactly celebrate it. But we do have 2 minute silence at 11. And people buy and wear poppies. The money goes to charity of course~
I guess celebration isn't quite the word, it's more of a solem event. I'm celebrating since I have time off work for it.
Since I live in England it is a big thing here to remember those who fought in the war. Some places might hold celebrations but overall it depends on the people.
I understand if they're celebrating for ending a world war, but to end world wars? This is but a dream; impossible to achieve by human standards. I need not to explain as to why, but I hope one day; people can abstain from conflict until the bitter end.
Rememberence day or poppy day, is observed in most commonwealth of nations member states. Mostly anyone who was tied to Great Britain at the time. So for sure England ‘celebrates’ on 11th november.
And hopefully never. Every possible scenario in World War 3 would result to BAD ENDING 1*n consequent to the number of casualties, artificial resources deprived, and natural resources decimated, contaminated, or worse, annihilated in the map. Even if there is a victor, I doubt they could recover and profit that much from the damaged done already on the planet, unless the war ends swiftly with at least damage done in the process. Rule the economy to rule the world. Ruling with burning lead is no longer the safest and secured option there is for the race to power in the world.
It means pretty much everyone will be negatively effected, some destroyed by the blasts and some destroyed by changes in the atmosphere from that many nukes going off. Straight up its the worst possible idea we can have right now.
We proclaimed ourselves independant in 1917, and extremely few of our citizens actually partook in WW1 (some more famous than others), so while it's been mentioned a lot on the radio today, some places have hoisted the flag and our president went to Paris, it's not necessarily actually celebrated here. Though the thing that keeps on irking me is that they're all saying 'We celebrate in order to remind ourselves never again to repeat the mistake from exactly 100 years ago' . 100 years ago being when peace was once again declared. And grammarnazi as I sometimes am, that to me means like they don't want repeat the peace process again, meaning they want to continue the war. I get the meaning, but the inner grammar is strong within me.