Wearing our poppies with pride: ninety years of Remembrance

At the eleventh hour on  Nov. 11, 2008, we will mark ninety years since the end of The Great War. In the U.S. you call it Veterans' Day. In the U.K., we know  Nov.11 as Remembrance Day or Poppy Day.
 
Beginning in 1939, at the start of World War Two, the two-minute silence was moved to the Sunday nearest  Nov. 11 in order not to interfere with wartime production should it fall on a weekday. Since the 1990s, a growing number of people have observed a two-minute silence on  Nov. 11 itself, resulting in both that day and  Remembrance Sunday being commemorated formally in the U.K. 
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