Remembrance Day
By: Claire Celia Mae Tennant
We’ve all grown accustomed to the bright red poppy worn throughout the beginning of November. Even though Remembrance Day occurs every year it’s easy to forget the importance of it. Remembrance Day isn’t only for remembering the past wars, lives lost and sacrifices, but also the present wars happening in countries around the world. Lives are being lost in the present. Although November 11th is Remembrance Day, we must remember everyday throughout the year of the past and present sacrifices of soldiers have made for you. Allowing you to live in peace and freedom.
Why is November 11th the day marked on Calenders? World war I began on July 28th 1914 and ended November 11th 1918, The 11th hour of the 11th day of the eleventh month. The last day of World war I is remembrance day because it was the first major war. The first occurrence of Remembrance Day was in 1919 and was originally called “Armistice Day” to commemorate the armistice agreement that ended the first war.
The poppy is a symbol of remembrance from the poem “In Flanders Fields” by John McRae a Canadian doctor in WWI:
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields the poppy’s blow
Between the crosses row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below
We are the dead
Short days ago we lived felt dawn, saw sunset glow
Loved and were loved and now we lie
In Flanders Fields
On November 11th wear a poppy. We shall not forget.
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