<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\nGraphic of the day: How poppies symbolise Remembrance Day<\/h1>\nOn November 11, wearing poppies and laying wreaths, we remember the members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty since the First World War<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\nBy\u00a0Stefan Bayley<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
6:00AM GMT 11 Nov 2011<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nRemembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day, Armistice Day or Veterans Day) is a memorial day to remember the members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty since the First World War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nHostilities formally ended “at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” of 1918 so Remembrance Day is observed on November 11.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nThe remembrance poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem\u00a0In Flanders Fields<\/em>, believed to have been written by Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nPoppies were the first flowers to grow in the earth of the soldiers’ graves in Flanders and so they became an appropriate symbol for Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nThe first person to wear a poppy was American Moina Michael who wrote a poem vowing to always wear a poppy as a symbol of remembrance after reading In Flanders Fields. Her campaign to have the poppy adopted as a national symbol kicked off in 1921 when poppy sellers were sent to London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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By\u00a0Stefan Bayley<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
6:00AM GMT 11 Nov 2011<\/p>\n
Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day, Armistice Day or Veterans Day) is a memorial day to remember the members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty since the First World War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Hostilities formally ended “at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” of 1918 so Remembrance Day is observed on November 11.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The remembrance poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem\u00a0In Flanders Fields<\/em>, believed to have been written by Canadian physician and Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Poppies were the first flowers to grow in the earth of the soldiers’ graves in Flanders and so they became an appropriate symbol for Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The first person to wear a poppy was American Moina Michael who wrote a poem vowing to always wear a poppy as a symbol of remembrance after reading In Flanders Fields. Her campaign to have the poppy adopted as a national symbol kicked off in 1921 when poppy sellers were sent to London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" POPPYS on the 11th of november have always had strong meaning for me. During much of my adult life I ended up in England or France for this day. I often attended the service in the Guards Chapel listening to the Archbishop of Canterbury speak. \u00a0I was an interloper, as the others in the chapel … Continue reading 11 11 11<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1016],"tags":[1017,2553,1019,1018],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-november-11","tag-armistice-day","tag-november-11","tag-poppys","tag-remembrance-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}