Queen leads honor for war dead
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QUEEN Elizabeth II led millions of Britons as they fell silent to honor members of the Commonwealth’s armed forces killed in conflict at the annual Remembrance Sunday service.
The 89-year-old monarch, senior royals and politicians including Prime Minister David Cameron laid wreaths at the Cenotaph national war memorial in London, as thousands of military veterans looked on.
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands laid a wreath to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of his nation after the end of World War II.
Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also laid a floral tribute. The long-time pacifist wore a poppy, and sang the national anthem, having previously been criticized for keeping silent during its playing.
The centerpiece of yesterday’s event was the two minute’s silence at 11:00am local time, observed by millions of people across Britain and marked in London by the firing of an artillery gun.
Thousands of veterans earlier marched past the Cenotaph, Britain’s primary war memorial.
Later yesterday, a projection of giant falling poppies, the flower that has symbolized the nation’s war dead since World War I, will be projected onto the Houses of Parliament.
Remembrance Sunday is the Sunday nearest to Armistice Day on November 11, the anniversary of the 1918 signing of the peace treaty that ended fighting in World War I.
Over one million people from the British empire died in the four-year war, but the day is now a time to remember all troops killed in wars since then.
It is thought there has been only one year, 1968, without a British military fatality on active service since the end of World War II in 1945.
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