Armistice Day: Britain's day to remember

Before Veterans Day, November 11 was "Armistice Day," which commemorated the agreement signed between the allies of World War I and Germany, ending the war at the eleventh hour. CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata reports from London on the origins of the holiday.

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1:47 what a good kid

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poppy's were not worn by soldiers.

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They were made after ww1

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@@jon9719 they weren’t made they grew in the fields after the fighting

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@@tierney-tomo9527 Listen, they grew after but this thing says that the soldiers wore poppy's firstly that's impossible and secondly they would get mugged

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The poppy became the symbol of remembrance partly because of the poem “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae. The paper poppies we now wear in Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were originally produced by The Haig Fund, a charity set up by the Field Marshall Earl Haig to help injured servicemen, and the funds made by selling go to the charity ( now to the Royal British Legion, and its equivalents in other parts of the Commonwealth).
The poppy was worn during the war by some civilian organisations to raise funds to support service personnel in France and the USA.

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@@jon9719 Nope, that is not mentioned anywhere in the video. The only very slight hint is the statement that poppies were already growing in the fields (very likley as the seeds would need to be there for when the French farmers saw them growing after) and that they gave comfort to the soldiers fighting there, which may be the case if any of them wrote down such things in diaries or told such stories afterwards.
> secondly they would get mugged
They are not tulips mate, and besides last time I checked the value of a Tulip had crashed so I doubt a Poppy would be particularly attractive to an opportunistic criminal somehow finding themselves in a trench. Actually the somehow is easy, they are male, they certainly are in that trench. I'd also think they would have other things on their mind in that trench besides that fact a worthless poppy is attached to the remains of someone just blown up in in front of him. Yeah, the criminal would be thinking, ooh, poppy, I'll swipe that.