Poppies at Tower of London

[@barbfenwick9178]

I WAS AMAZED BY THE DISPLAY. GOD BLESS YOU ALL.

[@ianarnett]

Remembrance is every year in the UK, not just on the major anniversary dates. Each city, town, village has its own ceremony to recall those from their community who fell and it is all culminated in the Festival of Remembrance at The Royal Albert Hall and the paying of homage to the fallen at The Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday. These commemorations have been going on for decades, The Cenotaph was erected in 1920, so you see this is a major UK event every year.

[@davetdowell]

Remembrance isn't about war, it isn't about battles fought won or lost. It is about men (male and female), each of whom was loved, and each of whom loved others. It must be an act of remembering them as individuals and their individual sacrifice for us all, because each of them was one of us.

[@richardwills-woodward5340]

Nonsense. It is about what you state but it IS about war. It is everything to do with war. They didn't die having a cup of tea in the garden without a cause.

[@davetdowell]

@@richardwills-woodward5340 No, it's not. You don't know and can't tell from the war memorials what battlefield the remembered died upon. All you know is their name. It is about them, the individual and their sacrifice for your (in the generalised sense) freedom.

[@cherylmatthews4066]

Animals too...horses, dogs

[@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.