On Thursday, in article
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"Paul Dormer" wrote:
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(David Friedman) wrote:
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> > That Jette misremembered, substituting in the British name of the
> > holiday.
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> Except that the British name is Remembrance Sunday.
Yes, that's the formal event. But if the sale advertising was making a
big thing of the 11th November, I can see myself recalling it as
Armistice Day.
Apparently, my Grandfather, one of several Sergeants heading on leave,
kept out of sight until the last minute before the ferry left Boulogne,
so they didn't get volunteered to supervise boarding, and were straight
of the ferry and into a pub. (They used the look-as-if-you're-hoing-
somewhere-im****tant trick.) That was when he heard about the Armistice.
With the 90th Anniversaries coming thick and fast, and a very few old
men who were there, I can see it being particularly significant this
year.
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