I donât know if this is observed outside the USA, but I wanted to post this for all who served in the Armed Forces.
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Here in Poland we celebrate it as a national holiday, The Independence Day commemorating the 11th of November, 1918, the day Poland regained independence after over 130 years of partition by Prussia, Russia and Austro-Hungarian empire. Veterans are remembered, too, of course, both the living (fewer and fewer year to year) and those who paid the highest priceâŚ
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In the UK itâs Remembrance Day, with many wearing red or white poppies.
Itâs also St. Martinâs Day, which is still celebrated in many places, esp. northern Europe.
I wrote a song about it last year and played it at our local open mic last Friday 
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Thank you for sharing that, Tomasz.
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Poppy Day is observed on the Friday before Memorial Day (May 30) in the USA, although itâs not as widely observed anymore as it was when I was a kid. Back then, pretty much everybody wore poppies. WW2 veteran dads would even bring them home for kids and weâd all wear them to school. I know poppies are everywhere in the British Commonwealth now.
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Hi Mark ,
Well, you should have known by now⌠
But I say this with a big wink . It is important enough to repeat such a topic, and for some festive days we often do a new topic every yearâŚ
What I didnât tell you last time is that outside of St Maarten it is also on the 11th of the 11th at 11 minutes past 11 The opening of the carnival season here âŚmost⌠in the southern half of our country⌠so this day is etched in the minds of many people in Holland,
Greetings 
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Hi all, and all I can say is that I am still recovering, I never miss this day meet up with old pals, have a drink, then sadly watch the toon army get hammered ooo my god what a day, and always remembered,
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We stop at 11am on Remembrance Day here too and listen to The Last Post bugle call and light a candle in respect 
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We (in Belgium) have our national holiday, 21st of july, where we âsort ofâ honour our armed forces and our veterans too.
Thereâs a military parade in the streets of Brussels, attended by the king and members of parliament.
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And we still have Armistice Day on 11/11, with a ceremony in Brussels where the king lays down flowers at the âtomb of the unknown soldierâ, monument for those who fought and died during WWI and II. Most villages have one with the names of âtheirâ fallen soldiers, and there still are similar ceremonies in lots of places.
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Hah true!. We even have benches that have the names of British soldiers on them, who stayed in our community after the war.
It seems we have some british ancestry in our community, now that i come to think of itâŚ
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