Today marks the anniversary of the end of WW1. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month people in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Britain and other Allied countries stop what they are doing and observe a minute silence. This is the anniversary of when the guns stopped firing in 1918 which signaled the end to fighting. This day used to be called Armistice Day and people used to hold two minute silence. Now the one minute silence is to remember the dead from all wars. I ask BK members to hold this one minute silence for all the fallen soldiers of all wars past and present. I will be wearing a poppy on my lapel today and will be attending a service with my young daughter.
The Ode
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.