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More Remembrance Day resources
An excerpt from the Canadian Legion's teacher resource about Remembrance Day.
The eleventh of November is called Remembrance Day.
On Remembrance Day most people wear a
poppy. This flower is worn to remind us of the many
people killed on the battlefields of World War I and
World War II.
There are fields in Belgium called Flanders where
Poppies grow. Flanders was a place where much fighting
took place during the war of 1914-1918, known as
the Great War. It received this name because it was the
first time in history that almost every country in the
world was at war. Although it is called the Great War, it
was not a great place to be. This war lasted four years
and every spring the soldiers, who lived and fought in
trenches, noticed the red flowers blooming all over the
battlegrounds and on the graves of their friends who had
been killed.
When the war was finally over and the people who
were in the military service came home they thought of
all their friends who were buried in the fields of Flanders.
And each time they thought of the graves, they remembered
the poppies which grow around the graves. They
did not want Canadians to forget that their friends had
died serving Canada and it was decided that a ceremony
would be held once a year to honour their memory. The
poppy became a symbol that everyone could wear to
show that they remember too.
Why do we remember on the eleventh of November
those who were killed? That is an easy question to answer.
The war stopped on the eleventh of November in 1918.
Those that were in the war decided that it would be right
to remember their friends on the day the fighting stopped.
The people who had not been in the war, but worked in
the factories, on the farms, the offices, the schools and the
hospitals agreed and Remembrance Day has been held on
the eleventh of November ever since. Many Canadians
were also killed in the Second World War, the Korean War
and on peacekeeping missions for the United Nations. We
also remember them on the eleventh of November. The
poppy has become a badge of honour, and when you wear
a poppy you remember all those brave Canadians who
were killed.
The eleventh of November is called Remembrance Day.
On Remembrance Day most people wear a
poppy. This flower is worn to remind us of the many
people killed on the battlefields of World War I and
World War II.
There are fields in Belgium called Flanders where
Poppies grow. Flanders was a place where much fighting
took place during the war of 1914-1918, known as
the Great War. It received this name because it was the
first time in history that almost every country in the
world was at war. Although it is called the Great War, it
was not a great place to be. This war lasted four years
and every spring the soldiers, who lived and fought in
trenches, noticed the red flowers blooming all over the
battlegrounds and on the graves of their friends who had
been killed.
When the war was finally over and the people who
were in the military service came home they thought of
all their friends who were buried in the fields of Flanders.
And each time they thought of the graves, they remembered
the poppies which grow around the graves. They
did not want Canadians to forget that their friends had
died serving Canada and it was decided that a ceremony
would be held once a year to honour their memory. The
poppy became a symbol that everyone could wear to
show that they remember too.
Why do we remember on the eleventh of November
those who were killed? That is an easy question to answer.
The war stopped on the eleventh of November in 1918.
Those that were in the war decided that it would be right
to remember their friends on the day the fighting stopped.
The people who had not been in the war, but worked in
the factories, on the farms, the offices, the schools and the
hospitals agreed and Remembrance Day has been held on
the eleventh of November ever since. Many Canadians
were also killed in the Second World War, the Korean War
and on peacekeeping missions for the United Nations. We
also remember them on the eleventh of November. The
poppy has become a badge of honour, and when you wear
a poppy you remember all those brave Canadians who
were killed.
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