Today is Remembrance Sunday. It commemorates the end of hostilities in the First World
War.At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th
month of the year 1918, an armistice was declared putting an end to the Great War
that had claimed the lives of 9 million service men on its battle fields.In Britain,
red poppies are traditionally laid at the tombs and on monuments to the war dead. Mgr.
Peter Fleetwood is a parish priest in Liverpool, England. He says he “very much respects
the idea that we should keep their memory. He also adds, with soldiers in active
service in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is an “extra relevance in remembering the dead
of military campaigns.” Listen