On the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month:
THEY FIGHT FOR US!
- Graphic courtesy of Rides A Pale Horse
Also on this date, at the same time, Commenwealth countries all over the world, especially in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom, commemorate their war dead and veterans with Remembrance Day. Their symbol is the poppy, as depicted in the poem In Flanders Fields by Canadian physician John McCrae: