Armistice Day

I think this is the first time in my entire life I’ve actually noticed its Armistice Day. Normally it just passes on by like any other day. I guess I have Google to thank for that- seeing a big huge Nov. 11 on my way to checking my email is what jogged my memory.

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A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.

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  1. It registered vaguely with me because there have been complaints about wounded soldiers from Iraq being excluded from the march to the Cenotaph in London.

    But if it’s not celebrated here in China, it’s so easy to overlook these sorts of events.

  3. The French remember it for two reasons: 1/ it is a day off as we have many in France; 2/ One of the days of November there is no strikes because employees are on vacations. We have a full schedule of strikes this month (Judges, Railway company, teachers, university students, EDF-GDF, lawyers, etc…), if somebody plans a new one he will have to wait until next month or better next spring because December is too cold.
    Don’t count, they remember the Arnmistice of WWI.

  4. Ah, striking, France’s national sport.

    Why don’t the protest by insisting on working on national holidays?

    Still, I’m sure Armistice Day in certain parts of northern France and Belgium would be a pretty special experience, similar to ANZAC Day at Gallipolli. That last one is a pilgrimage I would like to make sometime in my life.

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