Armistice Day Centennial in a small town
Armistice Day, 11 November, commemorates the end of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 which all too soon and all too sadly became renamed the "First" World War. Poppies are worn in memory of the poppies that grew all over the fields of Flanders field after the terrible slaughter there. Poppies spring up where the soil has been disturbed, and all the shells and the burials in Flanders disturbed the earth quite thoroughly. The picture of that awful springtime beauty has been immortalised in John McCrae's poem, "In Flanders fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row," For a week or two before the 11th, street corner collectors accept donations and hand out simple poppy badges. Donations to the poppy fund support veterans of wars. This year, 2018 is 100 years since the end of the "War to end all wars" that, tragically, wasn't. Memorial parades and services happened all over the UK and elsewhere in the world. The Edinburgh Ward hosted a mu