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Saturday, November 11 UK marks Remembrance Day To save your world you asked this man to die: Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?  Today marks the 61st Remembrance Day since the cessation of the Second World War and the beginning of the Armistice ("at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"). Some also call this day Armistice Day, as Remembrance Sunday is traditionally scheduled to be on the second Sunday of November.As is customary, in central London The Last Post could be heard , as could the traditional Reveille (both performed by lone bugler), of which the latter follows the two-minute silence to remember those who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars, and the former marks the beginning of. The silence was brought to an end by the bugler's Reveille and a fly-past of four Typhoon jet aircraft by the RAF - the sudden noise prompting the square's pigeons to take flight. More: BBC News article on Trafalgar Square service As the grandson of someone who participated in the Second World War, and whose grandpa was an active serviceman before WWII, I strongly advise everyone to find out more about Remembrance Day, the Armistice and about the British Legion - and donate, if at all possible, to support those who fought to defend our freedom through two bloody World Wars. Also, a little-known fact: some people choose to wear white poppies, which emphasises a desire for peaceful alternatives to military action. I never knew this until one of my Uni lecturers told me in a lab session on Thursday. Also, read more about the day's events on the BBC News web site. Images: the British Legion's Poppy Appeal web site.  Technorati tags: Remembrance Day Poppy Appeal Armistice British Legion World War 2 kerblam Dragged out of Christopher's memory and pasted into his blog at 11/11/2006 09:57:00 PM. Roughly. Blog ID: 116328345391996656· | Permalink |
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