Posts Tagged ‘ Remembrance ’

In the UK it’s Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day, or even Poppy Day. In the US it’s Veteran’s Day.

In either country (and others) it’s a day for respecting and honoring the men and women who serve their country now and in the past, and remembering those who fell in service of their countries. Most years I write a small piece about World War I – that war’s armistice being the origin of the day – and the number of dead. Sometimes I post the end of Blackadder Goes Forth and the reason that in the UK and other European countries it’s become known as Poppy Day. But I really can’t say it better than Lt Col John McRae did in ‘In Flanders Fields‘.