Of course this largely depends on the real question:

What are younger Canadians being TAUGHT about the meaning of Remembrance Day?

ANd subsidiary questions liek What is our understanding of the meaning of Remembrance Day?  How is it siginificant for us, several generations removed from the event it officially ocmmemorates (the cessation of hostilities in 1918)?  Is it a day for celebrating those who fought or, as the Legion campaigns once emphasized (but don't seem to as much or as well now), NEVER AGAIN?

We had a good fun day on Remembrance day in our town.  Being that it is mild fall weather and beautiful here and that our Christmas celebration has turned into a fiasco for capitalism, in the past few years the real town has taken to having its real community party on Remembrance Day.  We have dogs, cocoa and coffee at the Aggie Hall after the ceremony and everyone is there, every class, every politic, every citizen - being friendly and fun.  It's kind of interesting. 

We talk about war of course.  Everyone is aware of the solemnity of the day.  I liked that the kids understood the significance of the Cavalry beret that I wore ( grandfather, WW1) with the butterfly earings . . . kids are so great when it comes to imagery.  Unfortunately, we kill the poetry in kids and then call them intelligent and educated.  and we die nasty deaths because of it.