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November 11: I remember the Great War

Today November 11 and 'Remembrance Day, a day commemorating the end of World War I observed throughout Canada and the countries of the Commonwealth.

Remembrance Day and 'now dedicated to all fallen military killed during the war, and in the tradition established by King George V celebrated two minutes of silence at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month because that was the time (in the United Kingdom and France) when the armistice became effective. Before 1945 the silence was for one minute.

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa in the Remembrance Day poppies blanket

In Canada, Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day by chosen as a symbol of the poppy) is a holiday for federal government employees, while private companies, provincial governments and schools, its status varies from province to province. Schools usually hold assemblies for the first half of the day or the day before, with several presentations about the memory of the war dead. Thousands of people gather near the National War Memorial in Ottawa. Among the crowd of war veterans, some in wheelchairs, pay tribute to the sailors, soldiers and airmen died.

poppy and 'the symbol of this Armistice Day and memory and some days lots of people if you pinned to your lapel. There 's a very strong participation by all social and religious services and commemorations will take place today throughout the country.

The relationship between the poppy and Remembrance Day comes from the poem "In Flanders Fields", Canadian medical officer John McCrae . The poppy emblem was chosen because these flowers bloomed on the battlefields of Flanders in the First World War. Their red color is an appropriate symbol for the bloodshed of trench warfare. A French woman named Madame E. Guérin introduced the now widespread use of artificial poppies distributed today.

Many celebrations are held the second Sunday of November. For Christians there is an overlap created by an appropriate coincidence of the Remembrance Day with the feast of St. Martin of Tours, a saint famous for giving up the military life for the peaceful resolution of Monaco. For this reason statues associated with St. Martin are sometimes used as a symbol for Remembrance Day in religious contexts (eg, the Anglican Cathedral of Montreal).