Remembrance Sunday and the British Legion Poppy

At the eleventh hour on Nov. 11, we will mark 91 years since the end of The Great War. In the U.S., it is called Veterans Day, in the U.K., it is known as Remembrance Day or Poppy Day.

Beginning in 1939, at the start of World War II, the two-minute silence was moved to the Sunday nearest to Nov. 11 in order not to interfere with wartime production. Since the 1990s, a growing number of people have observed a two-minute silence on Nov. 11, resulting in both that day and Remembrance Sunday being commemorated formally in the U.K.
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