Remembrance day...
Remembrance day (Poppy day or Armistice Day) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I, to remember the members of their armed forces. This day is recognized also in non-Commonwealth countries. The end of the hostilities was on 11th day of the 11th the month on 11 a.m. ,in accordance with the representatives of Germany. The day was dedicated to King George V on 7 November of 1919, as a day of the armed forces. The symbol of the memorial is the red poppy, to the poem "In Flanders Fields".
These poppies bloomed in battlefields of Flanders and their colour is the symbol of the blood to the people death in war.
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