I have changed the title for the OP. But before any others take apparent offense, Remembrance Day (or Armistice Day for some) is observed in the UK and many Commonwealth countries by a poppy appeal by the returned services organizations. Poppies are sold starting several weeks before the event. Thus the day is often informally referred to as Poppy Day, not as a mark of disrespect but as a remembrance of the fields of poppies in Flanders and the numbers of soldiers decimated by the trench warfare of WW1.
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