Remembrance Day

After I got my observing permit at Sunken Meadow State Park, I got my camera and walked out to the boardwalk which runs along the beach.  It is a wonderful place to walk, that runs for three-quarters of a mile right along the shoreline,   I saw this plastic poppy fastened to one of the benches on the boardwalk.  A song by Mark Knopfler came to mind, and it is called "Remembrance Day" and he sings about all the young men lost in the war, and the refrain is "We will remember them, remember them remember them..."  So this is what Remembrance Day is:  It is sometimes known informally as Poppy Day owing to the tradition of the remembrance poppy, is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty. Remembrance Day is observed on 11 November in most countries to recall the end of hostilities of First World War on that date in 1918. Hostilities formally ended "at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month", in accordance with the armistice signed by representatives of Germany and the British and the French.  In the United States it’s called Veteran’s Day.