How to Celebrate Remembrance Day in Britain
Remembrance Day is celebrated throughout the British Commonwealth in Canada, South Africa, Australia and Britain in order to remember those that lost their live in the two world wars. First organised in 1919 by George V, it falls on November the 11th, the day the Great war was ended. In Britain they also have Remembrance Sunday, on the 2nd Sunday of November.
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How to Celebrate Remembrance Day
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Buy a poppy. These can be bought everywhere from charity shops to people selling them on the street. All you have to do is leave a donation.
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Observe the two minutes of silence at 11am on the 11th November. This is officially one minute remembrance for each of the two wars. There are religious services held immediately after the silence, but remembrance is also held in work and at public places.
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How to Celebrate Remembrance Sunday
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Go to a church ceremony. All churches should hold a Remembrance Sunday service. In some churches it can be a big occasion, the church filled out with scouts, cubs, St. John ambulance people, the Salvation army and the British legion.
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Parade afterwards to the nearest war memorial. Here a member of the British Legion will lay down a poppy wreath.
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Watch the ceremony on TV. A big ceremony is filmed at Westminster Abbey which the show every year on television, one of the oldest running events on TV.
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Tips & Warnings
Most people now hold only a one minute silence.
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