Remembrance Day

 Now I tell you about Remembrance Day in England:

November is the time of the year when England's people remind memory of those sacrificed during wars by red poppy.The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marks the signing of the Armistice, on 11th November 1918, to signal the end of World War One.

A war memorial in Sevenoaks Kent

       Remembrance Day is on 11 November. It is a special day set aside to remember all those men and women who were killed during the two World Wars and other conflicts. At one time the day was known as Armistice Day and was renamed Remembrance Day after the Second World War.Remembrance Sunday is held on the second Sunday in November, which is usually the Sunday nearest to 11 November.
       Special services are held at war memorials and churches all over Britain. A national ceremony takes place at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London. The Queen lays the first wreath at the Cenotaph. Cenotaph is memorial for the people who were buried elsewhere. The Wreaths are layed beside war memorials by companies, clubs and societies. People also leave small wooden crosses by the memorials in remembrance of a family member who died in war.

Queen Elizabeth II

Small Cross

Cenopath, London

       In this festival the "Last Post" is traditionally played to introduce the two minute silence in Remembrance Day ceremonies. It is usually ' played on a bugle. (In military life, 'The Last Post' marks the end of the day and the final farewell.).
       In this festival they wear artifcal  red poppy which sold by Royal British Legion, a charity dedicated to helping war veterans. Poppy Become the symbol because poppies only flower in rooted up soil. Their seeds can lay in the ground for years without germinating, and only grow after the ground has been disturbed. The poppy flowering each year with the coming of the warm weather, brought life, hope, colour and reassurance to those still fighting.

A poem called "For The Fallen" is often read aloud during the ceremony; the most famous stanza of which reads:

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them."

Fourth stanza of 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon (1869 - 1943)