Remembrance Day: National holiday?/"Veterans' Day"? (merged)

[Quirky]

A march on parade in a hockey rink is tricky even with enough practice, very easy to lose cadence from the drum. WEM's ice surface and that entire area is TINY and I doubt they had access to it days in advance for a few dry runs.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

I'm guessing the comment was also made by somebody that has never had to march on parade in their life, so has no idea how hard it can be to get things unfucked once they goes off the rails.

Once we found out my daughter was Colour guard Commander, we went down to the Cenotaph on Sunday with someone who had done it before and spent a good hour working out how she was going to do it and practising it.

Any ceremony like Remembrance Day requires some practice and working people through the evolutions. If you want to look good, you need to put some time in. Otherwise you increase the chance of failure significantly and with a much bigger than usual audience.

 

[Furniture]

Once we found out my daughter was Colour guard Commander, we went down to the Cenotaph on Sunday with someone who had done it before and spent a good hour working out how she was going to do it and practising it.

Any ceremony like Remembrance Day requires some practice and working people through the evolutions. If you want to look good, you need to put some time in. Otherwise you increase the chance of failure significantly and with a much bigger than usual audience.

100%

I have lived the no practice experience in front of TV cameras... It's not a lot of fun.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

The reality of life in the CAF is that drill will always be a thing and trying to look decent when doing it in front of the public is a thing. Very few people will get what your day job is or how good you are at it. So when we do drill in the public, it's pretty much the only gauge they have.