Remembrace day (also know as Poppy Day) is a memorial day.
This recurrence is observed on 11 November to recall the end of hostilities of World War I on that date in 1918. In the United Kingdom, although two minutes of silence are observed on 11 November itself, the main observance is on the second Sunday of November, Remembrance Sunday. The Remembrance poppy has been used since 1920 to commemorate soldiers who have died in war, this symbol is a Papaver Rhoeas. The use of the poppy was inspired by the World War I poem "In Flanders Fields". Its opening lines refer to the many poppies that were the first flowers to grow in the churned-up earth of soldiers' graves in Flanders.
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