Today is Remembrance Day!

We were all out clothes shopping at target for the new business development manager (DH) its all been announced in a fancy memo which he (and everyone else) got on his birthday, its all official! YAY! Anyways in target they had the 1 minute silence & the trumpet thingy..
i thought this was interesting (even tho i guessed why they used it)

The poppy's significance to Remembrance Day is a result of Canadian military physician John McCrae's poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy emblem was chosen because of the poppies that bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their red colour an appropriate symbol for the bloodshed of trench warfare. A Frenchwoman, E. Guérin, introduced the widely used artificial poppies given out today. Some people choose to wear white poppies, which emphasises a desire for peaceful alternatives to military action.

I also didnt know of the poem, i've probably heard it.. but reading stuff stays in my head longer than verbal stuff. (plus i did ancient history at school not modern)

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

— John McCrae

on another late melbourne cup note: (its over isn't it?)
DH boss, has been the first saab in the melbourne cup parade for a few years now (the one with the major, his kids, the cup and usually a emirates chicky, this year it was singer/actor delta goodrem in the back holding the cup!) :D