11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month

ScienceNerd wrote: »

"It was the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month, we'd gone to the school to discuss the faulty calenders"

Dáibhí wrote: »

PS: I see the leaders of Germany and France held a joint commemoration of WWI today - and no sign of either of them wearing the British poppy. So much for the British nationalist propaganda here about their poppy being an internationally accepted and used symbol.

Here's the picture, by the way: http://www.irishtimes.com/world/

The poppy's significance to Remembrance Day is a result of British (Canadian Corps) military physician John McCrae's poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy emblem was chosen because of the poppies that bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their red colour an appropriate symbol for the bloodshed of trench warfare. An American YMCA Overseas War Secretaries employee, Moina Michael, was inspired to make 25 silk poppies based on McCrae's poem, which she distributed to attendees of the YMCA Overseas War Secretaries' Conference.[30] She then made an effort to have the poppy adopted as a national symbol of remembrance, and succeeded in having the National American Legion Conference adopt it two years later. At this conference, a Frenchwoman, Anna E. Guérin, was inspired to introduce the widely used artificial poppies given out today. In 1921 she sent her poppy sellers to London, England, where they were adopted by Field Marshall Douglas Haig, a founder of the Royal British Legion, as well as by veterans' groups in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
A small number of people choose to wear white poppies, which they claim emphasises a desire for peaceful alternatives to military action. Some people regard this as being offensive.
The Royal Canadian Legion suggests that poppies be worn on the left lapel, or as close to the heart as possible

Dáibhí wrote: »

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