Tomorrow is Veterans Day or Remembrance Day.
Tomorrow is Veterans Day or Remembrance Day. This year is also the 100th anniversary of the year WW I started. I remember my grandfather always wore one of those fabric or paper poppies, but it wasn't until I was much older that I knew where that came from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields .
Because it's the 100th anniversary of this devastating war, many things will be done over the next 4 years to commemorate it and its effects. Including installing ceramic poppies around the Tower of London. Quoting from one of the websites: 888,246 poppies have been installed, one for each British and Colonial fatality during the war. Presumably, that doesn't include any of the other combatants who died. It's a disturbing perspective on what we keep doing to ourselves and others with all these wars.
Because it's the 100th anniversary of this devastating war, many things will be done over the next 4 years to commemorate it and its effects. Including installing ceramic poppies around the Tower of London. Quoting from one of the websites: 888,246 poppies have been installed, one for each British and Colonial fatality during the war. Presumably, that doesn't include any of the other combatants who died. It's a disturbing perspective on what we keep doing to ourselves and others with all these wars.
The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, lest we forget.
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