Sunday, 8 November 2009

Remembrance of the fallen

"In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below."
(In Flanders Fields, John McCrae)




This Sunday is Remembrance Day, it is a day in which British people remember all those who were killed in war, specially during World War II (they thought that they had finished with war after it, they were wrong, obviously).
This day is also called Poppy Day because it has become a tradition to wear an artificial poppy as those which grow in the fields of Belgium, where so many British died during World War I.

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