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The story behind Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day, on November 11, honors those who died in the First World War and in the conflicts since. The date marks the armistice that silenced the guns on the Western Front at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918.

Across the Commonwealth people wear red poppies, inspired by the poem 'In Flanders Fields' by Canadian doctor John McCrae, and observe two minutes of silence at 11 o'clock. It is a public holiday in most Canadian provinces and in several other countries; elsewhere, as in the United Kingdom, it is marked at work and on Remembrance Sunday.