Wear your poppy with pride for all the men and women who gave their lives in the wars that have shaped the world we live in today.
Today is Remembrance Sunday. Remembrance Day falls on the nearest Sunday to 11 November - the day peace was declared in 1918. The day is commemorated by church services around the country and a parade of ex-service personnel in London’s Whitehall.
I'm not a religious person but I have the utmost respect and pride for the memory of service personnel who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars and subsequent conflicts like the Falklands War and the Gulf War.
The red poppies represent the poppies that grew in the cornfields of Flanders in the First World War, where many thousands of soldiers lost their lives. The paper poppies that are worn today are made by ex-service personnel and are sold by representatives of the Royal British Legion, an organisation of ex-servicemen and women.
I hope that generations to come still celebrate and remember this time in the future.
Nick
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