Today is Remembrance Sunday, the day when we remember those who have given their lives in times of conflict. Often a poppy is purchased, the money going to the British Legion charity and worn as a show of respect. The poppy symbol comes from when soldiers used to eat and fill their pockets with poppy seeds. Afterwards when they fell in battle, poppies would grow from the ground around them, sprouting from the dropped seeds. The red of the poppy is also symbolic of the blood shed in battle. Throughout churches around Britain two minutes silence was observed and later on in Harrogate and in many other towns and cities a parade marched to the Cenotaph or war memorial to lay wreaths to commemorate the dead soldiers.
It’s also 30 years today since the Berlin Wall came down, the physical divide between East and West Germany taken apart piece by piece, reuniting the fractured country piece by piece. What a lot of history today has been filled with.