'Remembrance Day'

Hier, 2 minutes de silence étaient observées pour commémorer le 11 novembre, mais aujourd'hui c'est le 'Remembrance Day'; et je laisse une fois encore la parole à Wikipedia :
'Remembrance Day (Australia, Canada, United Kingdom), also known as Poppy Day (South Africa and Malta), and Armistice Day (United Kingdom, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries; and the original name of the holiday internationally) is a day to commemorate the sacrifice of veterans and civilians in World War I, World War II, and other wars. It is observed on November 11 to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918. The observance is specifically dedicated to members of the armed forces who were killed during war, and was created by King George V of the United Kingdom on November 7, 1919.'
Pour l'occasion, il est de bon goût de porter un Poppy (= un coquelicot rouge, en papier, que l'on épingle sur sa veste, bonnet, sac...). Wiki nous explique pourquoi : 'The poppy's significance to Remembrance Day is a result of Canadian 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 is an appropriate symbol for the bloodshed of trench warfare.'
Près du Walter Scott museum, des petites tombes ont été dressées avec pleins de poppies.