Armistice Day London: Poppies Honor WWI Soldiers | NBC News

[@friedmahooga]

That last line actually made me tear up. "Before we look away, think of the lives they would have led."

[@andrea22213]

And their wives and children left without a breadwinner, who suffered poverty. Assuming they survived the influenza pandemic.

[@samturver2880]

We don't show it But the British people are hugely patriotic about our armed forces

[@jackleslie1576]

Yer to right! And as it comes around again on the 11th day of the 11th month on the 11th hour of this year lest we forget.

[@CallumKray]

This day is a hard but patriotic day we all take silent pride in remembering.

[@PLuMUK54]

I am proud to say that one of those poppies is in my house, in memory of my Great Uncle Frank, died 08/04/1917 and buried in Péronne, France. RIP you are not forgotten. When you go Home, tell them of us and say, For your Tomorrow, we gave our Today” John Maxwell Edmunds 1916

[@drummerhoward]

iv got one to

[@buddhastaxi666]

I was in a discrete German war memorial in Lastrup 3 years ago. It was snowing. I realised the German people had lost loved ones just as we did. That they were inhibited from mourning. The same people with whom we have so many intimate tie and not just as deadly foes in battle.. Their grief is like our grief. May god be with all victims of war and may the German people be reconciled.

[@johnbaldock6353]

Thank You America for remembering Our Lost Men!

[@hughfranklin3072]

We honour our war dead they made the ultimate sacrifice for our king and country. Bless the all.

[@gordonsmith8899]

Thank you NBC ........ Spoken like a friend and ally.

[@hughfranklin4002]

We don't always celebrate our living soldiers as we should but we know how to honour our dead. For our tomorrows they gave there todays

[@sutty85]

Of course we do. We raise millions each year.

[@WICKEDMAN85]

My Fathers family (Granma) lost her Father and Uncle in WW1, she never forgot about the pain caused and always hated War. We must remember all the lost Men and Women killed on all sides that died for some stupid fears about Imperalism which changed the World in so many ways!!

[@johnwilletts3984]

The loss of so many young men from the population was to cast a very long shadow. The shortage of young men left many young women without the opportunity to marry. Many survivors left physicaly and mentally disabled. Almost all families left in grief, each poppy was a person known to the families who went to visit the tower.

[@clairemoon3722]

Very moving, seeing all those poppies...very tearful

[@nufc2smb]

Lest we forget.

[@Nemetona225]

Thank you for stating British Soldiers, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

[@TheGiantKillers]

Just to add that those poppies don't just represent the modern four home nations of the UK but also the whole of Ireland as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and modern-day Pakistan and Bangladesh, and a great many other nations in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean whose young men fought under the then British Empire.

[@Nemetona225]

@@TheGiantKillers Of course And should not be forgotten either.

[@PortmanRd]

And Ireland.

[@Distant394]

Once the display finished part of the display traveled across the country at regional iconic venues my local one was St George’s Hall and it looked amazing ,they sold a certain amount of the ceramic poppies and the money raised went to charity for the armed services and their families and I was so lucky to be able to get 1 and it stands proud in my garden a daily remind of the ultimate sacrifice these lads gave

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Yeah I was just thinking the same I remember them at At Georges Hall they done like a waterfall effect didn't they or am way off course???

[@Photonface]

In Flanders Fields In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

[@michaeldantepoet9863]

The poem I just posted commemorates the armistice. I hope the next 100 years is much more peaceful than the 20th Century was. My poem is told from the point of view of a martyred English soldier whose ghost is missing his family. My great grandfather was wounded in the trenches from mustard gas. My late father served in Aden and was wounded three times in action for his country. He left the British Army with PTSD and was a alcoholic for the rest of his life. His friend in Aden committed suicide because of the violence and the trauma he had witnessed. This is my take on the real damage that war has on families and society at large. Certainly, my father's trauma affected me greatly as a child, especially, his violent outbursts. The poem is published in my book, 'Psychotropolis' - (a collection of poems about Human Rights and Dignity), which you can get on Lou Lulu. God Bless our Arm Forces, God Bless Her Majesty and God Bless all the fallen men, women and children from both wars on both sides... Peace!

[@lexiwilliams9422]

Not just the British those poppies represent every fallen soldier from the commonwealth.

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

He said commonwealth soldiers listen again..SMH

[@bonnyvonny5182]

I was lucky enough to go and see the poppy's amazing totally amazing

[@Chris_GY1]

It is called Remembrance Day Amistice Day was on 11th November 1918. I’m a regular visitor to the battlefields.

[@davidhumphreys7035]

Not quite. Armistice Day is always the 11th Nov, Remembrance Day or Sunday is the Sunday closest to Armistice Day.

[@eyecomeinpeace2707]

As a Canadian I am always disappointed in our American cousins this time of year. Why don't you wear poppies on November 11th like all other WW1 and WW2 allied countries? Why do you always feel you have to be so different? You too lost so many soldiers in both wars. I know you celebrate Memorial Day and Veterans Day, but I have frantically searched all your news broadcasters, watched your politicians on TV and to my chagrin, nobody is wearing poppies on their lapels. Same with the citizens. Sure you wear cute little red-white and blue ribbons and cute little American flags, but still it only shows your patriotism to your country, but it does not express the fact that you were not the only country to help win the wars. Plus by donating a buck or two when picking up a poppy wherever they are distributed, the proceeds go for a good cause, i.e. The Legions, veteran affairs, and more.

[@cratarata2278]

Exactly I’m from the U.K. and this does not anger me that Americans don’t do this it just upsets me because a poppy should be remember all that died fighting for the allies such as India, France, Russia. South Africa, Ireland, Belgium, U.K., USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the many others

[@eltonronjovi2238]

I'm a Canadian and live in the US. I still wear one up to the 11th. Always will. I have come to the conclusion it's just cultural. In other words, that doesn't mean anything like it does in our societies. In have no clue why it's that way. There's also the fact that here it's Veterans Day. They celebrate the living. Memorial Day honours the fallen and that's in the spring. It might be contrary but it's just how it evolved. But no matter what, I'll always wear mine wherever I may be. Personal choice.

[@eyecomeinpeace2707]

@SUTTYMCFC Yup.

[@eyecomeinpeace2707]

@@cratarata2278 Yes absolutely.

[@robertlangley399]

God bless them all

[@lsf2418]

Theres nothing better than USA and UK bond the best fighting forces out there

[@jjrj8568]

2:11 I wonder how many died, or were badly injured or just developed some chronic mental illness due to trauma

[@lowesonia8551]

The Broken that returned left to break until they died. Medicine could do little apart from morphine. Mustard gas, my uncle was given a house in Brighton for sea air, but his lungs kept burning. A young man in a wheelchair who could hardly breath he lasted 2 years . I was 5yrs when mother and father went to say goodbye.

[@timhannah4]

British & Commenwealth Soldiers!

[@chrispotts6727]

British and Commonwealth soldiers for dying out loud. Get your facts straight

[@seanreeves7564]

John Mccrae actually didn't survive the war

[@leowenner791]

Honor to all the death of the word wars 1

[@yasyas6211]

what is the title of the music you can hear at the end ?

[@1chish]

Its the UK's National Anthem. Also known in the USA as "My Country, 'Tis of Thee"

[@Wolfy20856]

God save the Queen

[@cratarata2278]

It’s the British national anthem God save the Queen/King

[@slap_A_flamingo]

Anyone who died for a good reason deserves respect. Just glad to see that the Americas have more respect that some people here in the UK!

[@leedavies4589]

do you wear a poppy?? i wear it everyday

[@michaeldantepoet9863]

ARMISTICE I don’t think much of Armistice Day I’ve killed so many I cannot pray and to the living I say war is the wrong way. Have you heard the dead weeping for a mother or a wife? If you had you would end all war and not take another life. For Purgatory I’ve been bound in barbed wire for Christ’s sakes man let’s call a cease-fire. Listen to the bleeding flowers marshal my advice for thou know’st not the profanity of my sacrifice

[@johnmiller0000]

Thank you, Michael. Both your poem and your post about your father are moving. Sadly, his ia a tragic tale still too often repeated today.

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

All them poppies are dead soldiers..

[@bobolafaelienne6250]

sa fait combien de tulipes en tout ?!

[@lowesonia8551]

COQUELICOT HUIT CENT QUATRE-VINGT HUIT CENT MILLE QUARANTE DEUX

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Didn't you listen to the news reader he mentioned it 3 times how many soldiers died..SMH

[@loulousuper7039]

Coucou aux 1°C ;p

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Hello 1

[@christophermore6844]

? poppy flower?

[@anonymoususer4457]

Yeah

[@angelabushby1891]

And commonwelth

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

He mentioned that 4 times listen again..SMH 👂

[@clairemoon3722]

One day we will “learn war no more” Isaiah 2:4, have the “exquisite delight of peace in the abundance of peace” Psalms 37:9-11 ,and have “peace until the moon is no more” Psalms 72:7 because God will “bring an end to war” Psalms 46:8,9 and the “meek shall inherit the Earth” Matthew 5:5 FOREVER - Ecclesiastes 1:4, Psalms 37:9

[@michaelharrison3602]

Do stop more wars and atrocities have occurred because of religion than for any other reason and it hasn't ended:Jews v Muslims in the middle east. suni v shifted within Islam Catholic v protestant in northern Ireland. Muslim v Sikh in amristar all because every religion believes it has more right to exist than any other. Over the centuries the Christian Church has preacher more hatred than any other the inquisition, Burning at the stake, the religious wars in Europe the diaspora the holocaust all had religious roots

[@alexandercummins]

Haha Honour the dead but not the living! In 2017 in Britain 1 in 10 who is homeless is an ex serviceman (veteran)

[@joshge108]

Alexander Cummins Just by how disrespectful you are, I don't think anyone will think twice listening to you

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

Very true..They served our country but the government didn't serve them..SMH