Vandaag is het in Groot-Brittanië Remembrance Day. Dan worden de gevallenen van de Eerste Wereldoorlog en alle gewapende conflicten sindsdien herdacht. Het symbool van deze herdenking is de 'poppy', de klaproos, en komt uit het gedicht 'In Flanders Fields' van John McCrae:
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
— Lt.-Col. John McCrae