day WW1 ended, it ended since the two sides signed a peace treaty so they
stopped fighting at exactly 11:00 A.M. on the eleventh day of the eleventh
month. The people we are recognizing are the people who fought and died in WW1
and WW2, it just so happens that my great grandmas brother fought against
Hitler in WW2. Two of the items that are connected to Remembrance Day are poppies and paper cranes. The poppies are important because during WW1 poppies
began to bloom in Flanders Fields where the war was going on and the paper
cranes are important because they represent the story of Sadako Sasaki who got
diagnosed with leukemia in November 1954 from the atomic bomb America dropped
in Japan ending WW2 in 1945, she got hospitalized on February 21 1955 and given
a year at most to live. On August 3 1955 her best friend Chizuko Hamamoto
visited her and told her ,after folding a black paper crane, an ancient Japanese
story that said if you fold one thousand origami paper cranes you will be
granted a wish from the gods. Sadako only made it to 644 paper cranes before she
died on October 25 1955 at the age of 12. It is important to continue to
recognize Remembrance Day because we are giving our respect to the soldiers in
heaven that died fighting for our freedom in WW1 and WW2. We “celebrate” it
because it was a happy and important day for all the families that had family
members fighting in the war, but it was a grim and solemn day for the families
that they had found out that one of their closest friends or family members had
passed away. Here is a link to the story of Sadako http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki.