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About National Remembrance Day Canada, United Kingdom and Australia

Canada, United Kingdom, Australia
EVENT NAME:
Remembrance Day (CA/UK/AU)(1918)
EVENT CATEGORIES:
Anniversaries , Military
United Kingdom & Ireland , Canada
Australia
Dates Active:
Begins: Nov 11, 2023
Ends: Nov 11, 2023
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Remembrance Day in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and other British Commonwealth nations commemorate those people who died in the line of duty during wars. Inaugurated by King George in 1919, after WWI, that war ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

Remembrance Day, also called Poppy Day, a symbol from the poem "In Flanders Fields." Lt. Col. John McCrae wrote this poem. After the poem reading, Moina Michael, a professor at the University of Georgia, also wrote "We Shall Remember" and promised to wear a poppy on the anniversary, noting that poppies bloomed on the battlefield and the red poppies symbolize the blood spilled.

Today is a day for church memorials and includes playing the song "The Last Post," with two minutes of silence observed at 11:00 AM.

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae, 1872 - 1918


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.
We are the dead; short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe!
To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high!
If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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