I can totally see all of that and I suspect most of the military boys I know back home (a lot) would say the same. It's not as if Remembrance Day is a gloomfest where we all rub gravel through our hair, we have a pint and whatever, so it wasn't anything like that I thought was weird, it was more that no one raised the glass, there was just no acknowledgment at all. It could have been Arbor Day.
For my money, anyone who agrees to put their life in an elevated level of peril to ensure someone else's safety, even if only in perception, gets a nod. Hero, doing your job, or just like to blow shit up, if my standard of living is raised by someone else offering up their own, I owe that person. We all do.