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Camilla Flintermann wrote: > Hilary--sounds like the way it was celebrated in the U.S.A. > > The Flanders fields poem is by John McCrae, according to our copy of > Bartlett's Quotations. I had to look it up, couldn't remember either ! > > >It was called Armistice Day in the South Africa of my childhood. We stopped > everything we were doing at 11 am and observed 2 minutes silence. and it was the same in Belgium, and in France...and....and Michel