THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Queen to Lead Britain in Remembrance Sunday Ceremony
The Queen will lead the nation in commemorating the sacrifice made by Britain's war dead at today's Remembrance Sunday ceremony.
The monarch will be joined by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, opposition party leaders and the Foreign Secretary David Miliband at the wreath-laying event in central London.
Thousands of veterans will also gather to pay their respects to Britain's war dead at the ceremony staged at the Cenotaph memorial in Whitehall.
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the armistice of the First World War.
The Queen will lays the first wreath, followed by the Prime Minister, leaders of the opposition and high commissioners from Commonwealth countries. >>> | November 9, 2008
In Flanders Fields Museum >>>By Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army
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.
[Source: Arlington Cemetery]
