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Did you observe Rememberence Day 2 minutes silence?

Stella

Stella

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I'm curious -

Did you observe a 2 minute silence at 11am for Remeberence Day?
 
I did, although I was at work at the time. The office I work in always makes an announcement over the intercom, and it is actually quite impressive to see/hear an entire floor of a couple of hundred people sit silently at the same time.
 
I did, and so did most of the office. Though a bunch of arse holes in the corner decided to carry on chatting and laughing the whole way though :mad: REALLY annoys me, it's 2 freakin minutes of the year. Ungrateful selfish bastards.
 
No, I did not although I was pretty quiet anyway but busy. Was rushing to get an ad finished and off to a magazine on their press day before 12noon... sometimes deadlines get in the way of everything.
 
eva01, are you a Doctor?

I never participated in a 2 minute silence. I had a maths lecture (the lecturer were pretty old and I though they would have said about it, but they never - they were too busy giving us out exam marks back).
 
I've actually never heard of this, and had to Google it as well. It seems to be similar to Veteran's Day here in the U.S. (we actually get the day off from school) but we don't do anything like those two minutes of silence. We don't seem to do much at all for the holiday, even though much of us get the day off. Even when we do commemorate events by silence, in the U.S. it's a short moment of silence, usually not even a minute. I just can't see most of the people holding their silence for two minutes to commemorate an event (especially one so old that many, such as me, have little connection to). Still, hats off to the British for this custom.
 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day said:
Common British, Canadian, South African and ANZAC traditions include two minutes' silence at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month because that was the time (in Britain and France) when the armistice became effective. The two minutes recall World War I and World War II; before 1945 the silence was for one minute.
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Might be different in some countries, though...
Or if you're old enough to remember before 1945.
 
Nope, I didn't know that we were supposed to be having one. who knows, maybe I was silent from 11:00-11:02.
 
eva01 said:
Not yet, Lab Assistant right now, ridiculously busy this morning.

Thou the lab calls me the Child Prodigy/Golden Boy
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Are you planning on becoming a doctor, what type.
 
EJBasile said:
Are you planning on becoming a doctor, what type.
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Pathologist, I have volunteered at the local pathology lab for 5 years and also work in the Lab.

6 more years till i am out of medical school, then residency and everything else.
 
mms said:
Might be different in some countries, though...
Or if you're old enough to remember before 1945.
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In the U.S. Nov. 11 is called Veteran's Day. It's specifically to commemorate all American war veterans who are still alive. Before WWII it was called Armistice Day.

We have a separate holiday for war dead: Memorial Day, the last Monday in May.
 
I did not this year, and I am kinda sad about it.

We do it in Canada too, though it might only be 1 minute but I guess we get it from the brits.

Personally I think it's a great thing to do.

It's very sad thinking of everyone that died in these wars.

War sucks.
 
I didn't manage to as a patient had just come into the recovery room from the OR. We had planned to in the department but it just workout that we couldn't.
 
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