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Remembrance Day in The United Kingdom began on November 10, 1919. Each of the Common Wealth Countries declared a national holiday to stop and remember those who have served and paid the ultimate sacrifice to save their country.

Each country has their own version of a poppy that people wear to bring attention to the national observance.

The tradition of Remembrance Day evolved out of Armistice Day. The initial Armistice Day was observed at Buckingham Palace, commencing with King George V hosting a “Banquet in Honour of the President of the French Republic” during the evening hours of 10 November 1919. The first official Armistice Day was subsequently held on the grounds of Buckingham Palace the following morning. During the Second World War, many countries changed the name of the holiday. Member states of the Commonwealth of Nations adopted Remembrance Day, while the US chose Veterans Day.

In the Common Wealth during the holiday at some point it is tradition to recite the poem ‘Ode of Remembrance’

“They shall not grow old,
As we who are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning,
We will remember them.”