This festival is also known as REMEMBRANCE DAY, POPPY DAY, VETERANS DAY or ARMISTICE DAY because it is traditional to wear an artificial poppy.
This festival is celebrated on the 11th of November in the churches all over Britian.
It´s celebrated in English speaking countries.
It is celebrated to remember those who sacrificed their lives for us during wars.
The emblem of this day is a poppy because this is the first flower that grows in a battlefield after a war. In 1918, MOIRA MICHEL, an American, wrote a poem in which she promised to wear a poppy`in honour of our dead´. This began the tradition of wearing a poppy in remembrance.
People wear a poppy in the lapel of their jackets.
By JAMES-6ºB
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