Remembrance Day

What is Remembrance Day?• A.K.A Poppy Day, Armistice (a truce) Day • Memorial Day • Commemorated by British Commonwealth of Nations

What is Remembrance Day?• Originally established to remember the soldiers who died

during WW1 defending our Freedoms and Democracy • Memorial event to remember soldiers who died in all the wars

Why Poppies?• Flanders Field: Southern Belgium and North-West France• Bloomed in the worst battlefield of Flanders• Symbolization

In Flanders Field by Lt. Col. John McCrae• From Guelph; Ontario; Canada• Famous poet • Most famous for “In Flanders Field”

Reading & Video: In Flanders Field by Lt. Col. John McCrae

Leading Seaman: Nicoles Muir

What is the 1 minute silence• 11th November 11:00 am• To remember the soldiers who fought for their countries

1 Minute Silence

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