Wednesday 5 November 2014

Remembrance Day Part A

Remembrance day, also called Poppy Day, and Armistice Day, is day where people of Commonwealth observed since the end of World War I to remember their armed forces who died in the line of duty. Remembrance day is on November 11th to recall the end of hostilities of World War I on the date of 1918, hostility ended on the 11th hour, the 11th day, and the 11th month, in accordance to the Armistice, signed by representatives of Germany and Entente between 5:12 and 5:20 that morning. The red poppy is a familiar emblem to Remembrance Day because of the poem "In Flanders Fields." The poppies bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, the poppies red color was appropriate for the blood spilled in the war.                      


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