In reply to Isabel Tsang (msg # 904):
We (Canada, the UK and Commonwealth countries in general) have "Remembrance Day", which evolved out of "Armistice Day" marking the end of WWI. (Which ended in a cease-fire at the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.) Remembrance Day (also "Poppy Day" in the UK) is in honour of all soldiers, the living and the dead. (We do not have a separate "Memorial Day".)
Central to Remembrance Day is the poem "In Flanders Fields" by L. Col. Dr. John McRae:
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead: Short days ago,
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved: and now we lie
In Flanders fields!
Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
Recited by musician Leonard Cohen, who passed away yesterday:
https://www.thestar.com/entert...flanders-fields.html
Tony