3. What is Remembrance Day?
• A.K.A Poppy Day, Armistice (a truce) Day
• Memorial Day
• Commemorated by British Commonwealth of Nations
4. 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
5. Why Poppies?
• Flanders Field: Southern Belgium and North-West France
• Bloomed in the worst battlefield of Flanders
• Symbolization
6. In Flanders Field by Lt. Col.
John McCrae
• From Guelph; Ontario; Canada
• Famous poet
• Most famous for “In Flanders Field”