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Remembrance Day



In Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Scotland the poppies are curled at the petals with no leaf. The Canadian poppies consist of two pieces and a pin to attach them to clothing. The head portion of the pin is bent at an angle in a simple unusual design that requires a unique machine at manufacturing. For many years the centre of the Canadian poppy was both black and green (from two small concentric circles made of felt - the outer was green and the inner was black); current designs are black only.

In Sri Lanka in the inter-war years, there were rival sales of yellow Suriya (portia tree) flowers by the Suriya-Mal Movement on Remembrance Day, since funds from poppy sales were not used for Sri Lankan ex-service personnel but were repatriated to Britain. However, nowadays poppy sales are used for indigenous ex-service personnel who have been disabled in the ongoing civil war.

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"Remembrance Day" is the primary designation for the day in many Commonwealth countries such as Australia and Canada. However, "Armistice Day" also remains, often to differentiate the event from Remembrance Sunday, and is the primary designation used in New Zealand and France.

"Poppy Day" is also a popular term used, particularly in Malta and South Africa. Veterans Day also falls upon this day in the United States, yet many other allied nations have quite different Veterans Days.

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  1. ^ The Remembrance Ceremony. rsa.org.nz. Retrieved on 7 November 2006.
  2. ^ The Lamplighter Movement. networkoflight.org. Retrieved on 7 November 2006.
  3. ^ A Guide to Commemorative Services - Veterans Affairs Canada
  4. ^ Royal Canadian Legion: National Remembrance Day Ceremony 2007
  5. ^ French, Janet. "First Nations vets remember at Wanuskewin", StarPhoenix, 2007-11-13. Retrieved on 2007-11-13. 
  6. ^ Papua New Guinea marks Remembrance Day. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved on 11 November 2007.
  7. ^ War dead remembered. BBC. Retrieved on 5 August 2007.
  8. ^ THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION - Poppy & Remembrance » All About the Poppy

6. "The Origin of the Two Minutes of Silence,"in Our Empire, vol. VI, no 8, 1931, p. 27.

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