I do know now where the poppy reference comes from, thanks to you at this website, but I still do not know why we observe the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Can someone help? Is it the origins of the phrase "the eleventh hour," as in, "the last possible hour one could have done something to help?" I think it must be.
What I know is that I buy a poppy, and always have done since living in England during our first sojourn here or during this, and I wear it, thinking that I never had a relative who sacrificed a life during a war, not for cowardice (far from it, I'm sure, thinking of some of my brave and hotheaded young ancestors!) but for birth dates and education and disability... but I do always think of it. Thank you. Not just for the British, but for the Americans and everyone else. Thank you, however complicated things after YOU things may become.
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