In Rememberance

Rememberance Sunday is here in the UK is the closest Sunday to 11 November. In most towns and cities veterans will march and lay wreaths of poppies in rememberance on our war memorials. London hosts the largest and main parade of rememberance with leaders of the government, the Royal family and representatives of the commonwealth nations laying their wreaths at the Cenotaph in Whitehall in London, it was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. A cenotaph is an "empty tomb" or a monument. The Cenotaph in Victoria Park in London Ontario looks very similar.The rememberance Poppy has been used since 1920 to commemorate soldiers who have died in war. The use of the poppy was inspired by the World War I poem 'In The Fields of Flanders' Its opening refer to the poppies that were the first flowers to grow in the earth of soldiers' graves in Flanders after the battles.

We will remember them