The trouble with having a holiday for commemorations is that many/most people just take it as a day off work, and go for a day out or whatever, and that feeds into commercialisation. Remembrance Sunday doesn't feel like that here anyway.

Generally speaking I'm all in favour of holding celebrations on the traditional day - switching May Day holiday to the first Monday after real May Day on May 1st, as the have in some countries, such as England, is ridiculous.

Wanting a day when the flowers would be blooming to remember the dead strikes me as an excellent idea. So May 30th was an arbitrary choice, other than that?

Having a separate commemoration day for the two sides in the Civil War after all these years seems strange though. After all, it's the same date for the two sides in the Great War, and that in itself is an important symbolic statement.