If you are in Canada today you will see poppies pinned to everyone’s chest for Remembrance Day. The poppy refers to the poem, which if you click through on Striatic’s photograph above, you can read in its entirety. It commemorates the dead of World War I, in which 9 million young men died in a ghastly war of fratricide and attrition. Soldiers were commanded to go up “over the top” into direct machine gun fire, where they fell, row upon row. Spare them a thought on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year.

Have a look at Remembrance Day Photoset from RiffRaff too.