When I was in Canada last year I went to a local legion and asked and was given a bag full of poppies and I brought them home and I always give them to my English students which I did tonight, I printed out copies of the text below and we talk about it and I explain to them the significance and ask them to wear the poppy on Friday and hopefully their friends and family will ask about the poppy and also some Expat may make a comment to them!!!!
It was a great class!!
Remembrance Day is an occasion of national significance, but many parents believe thoughts of sacrifice and death aren’t appropriate to share with young children. But I believe that by helping school-aged children to understand why the nation comes to a halt at 11am to remember the war dead – and, from this year, victims of terrorism, too – we can safeguard its future.
More than 100 years ago, a war began that was the biggest the world had ever seen. Millions of soldiers had to go and fight for their country to make sure that their country and their families were safe. Many, many of these soldiers died. It is these soldiers we remember on Remembrance Day, as well as soldiers from other wars, such as World War 2, the Falklands , Korean, Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Most soldiers didn’t want to go to war but they did so because they wanted to fight for what they believed was right. This is called a sacrifice. We remember them to say thank you for what they did.
It wasn’t just trained soldiers who went to war, but ordinary men: brothers, sons and fathers.
Most towns and cities have a war memorial to celebrate those from the local area who have lost their lives in battle. Knowing that people from the area in which they live gave their lives in battle will make the concept of Remembrance Day more ‘real’.
Remembrance Day isn’t just celebrated in the UK. Countries such as Canada, Australia, France, Belgium and the Cayman Islands also dedicate a national day to remember those who fought for their countries.
In Australia and New Zealand biscuits are traditionally baked and eaten on Remembrance Day. These biscuits were sent by women at home to soldiers who were fighting overseas during World War 1. This was because the biscuits did not go stale quickly. Today, these biscuits are eaten as an act of remembrance.
The red poppy are a symbol of remembrance, hope for a peaceful future and commemorates the soldiers who fought and died in war. Poppies were chosen as a symbol because they often grew in the battlefields after the soldiers stopped fighting.
I love the photo of Frida as a puppy!!
Stay safe and healthy!!
Yashi Kochi!!
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