{"id":16854,"date":"2012-11-11T18:31:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T18:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=16854"},"modified":"2012-11-11T18:31:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T18:31:33","slug":"armistice-day-veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=16854","title":{"rendered":"Armistice Day, Veterans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

[by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — for the UK, US and others, a day to remember ]
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The Great War ended on this date a little short of a century ago, November 11th, 1918. My grandfather, Sir Henry Clayton Darlington<\/a><\/strong>, commanded troops at the Hellespont, so for me that war — and the Armistice which ended it — is but one degree of separation from personal memory. <\/p>\n

Common British, Canadian, South African, and ANZAC traditions include two minutes of silence at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month (11:00 am, 11 November), as that marks the time (in the United Kingdom) when armistice became effective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Poppies grew in the fields of Flanders where so many of our soldiers died, and in the UK poppies are worn in the lapel on this day<\/a> to remember them. In the words of the Laurence Binyon<\/strong>‘s poem For the Fallen<\/a>, <\/p>\n

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
\nWe will remember them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Small Wars Journal has a history<\/a> of the various Armistice Day<\/strong>, Veterans Day<\/strong> and Remembrance Day<\/strong> observances. <\/p>\n

The poppy pressed between the pages of St Luke’s gospel<\/a> (image, above) was picked by one Les Forryan<\/strong>, who served with the UK’s Army Service Corps in France and Belgium during the Great War, and the book itself was a “Soldier’s Pocket Testament”, given to him in 1915. The field of poppies and crosses (image, below) was photographed by Brandanno1<\/strong><\/a> in Cardiff, Wales, in 2007. The image of HM Queen Elizabeth II<\/strong> (image, inset) is from a Daily Mail report<\/a> in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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