Armistice Day Ceremonies in the UK and France

The last 3 remaining soldiers were able to attend a lay wreaths.
Armistice Day is the anniversary of the symbolic end of World War I on 11 November 1918. It commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Rethondes, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning — the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month". While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the cease fire on the Western Front, hostilities continued in other regions, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Ottoman Empire.
The date was declared a national holiday in many allied nations to commemorate those members of the armed forces who were killed during war. Called Armistice Day in many countries, it was known as National Day in Poland (also a public holiday) called Polish Independence Day. After World War II, the name of the holiday was changed to Veterans Day in the United States and to Remembrance Day in the British Commonwealth of Nations. Armistice Day remains an official holiday in France. It is also an official holiday in Belgium, known also as the Day of Peace in the Flanders Fields.
In many parts of the world people take a two minute moment of silence at 11:00 a.m. as a sign of respect for the roughly eight million who died in the war, as suggested by Edward George Honey in a letter to a British newspaper although Wellesley Tudor Pole established two ceremonial periods of remembrance based on events in 1917.[1][2] Beginning in 1939 the two-minute silence was moved to the Sunday nearest 11 November in order not to interfere with wartime production should 11 November fall on a weekday. Since the 1990s a growing number of people have observed a two-minute silence on 11 November, resulting in both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday being commemorated formally in the UK (although in 2007 they fell on the same day).
11 November 2008 is the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day.--Wikipedia

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[enochpowellwazRIGHT]

i am very proud that the whole collage today went 100% silence in GREAT RESPECT to these people and my respect not only to whose in the world wars and the conflicts in afghan and Iraq but to those who have EVER fought for our island and protected its rights and our rights to live the way we do!

[marbat1969]

Eternal Remembrance and Glory for those who gave their lives on all Great War battlefields fighiting for freedom of european nations.

[Mohrkai]

couldn't have been that silent in uk if MW3 came out tuesday gone.

[LaFarfalla246]

'We will remember them'. To all those who fought & died for their country. If it wasn't for these young men, we wouldn't have the freedom that we have today and we must NEVER forget that. We all owe them the greatest respect. My paternal grandfather (who died years before I was born) fought in France during WW1. He was only 16 & lied about his age in order to enlist. He survived the war but his lungs were damaged by the effects of mustard gas. My maternal grandfather fought in Burma during WW2.

[robrules555]

My utter most respect for evryone who has died in the wars, especially ww1 and ww2. May all of them rest in peacexx

[malcstag]

Too many heros dem a dead and gone. Blessed

[Amanoavon]

its sad all 3 of these men have passed away. let them be remembered forever. Lest we forget

[SLIM1N]

the day that these 3 men are gone will be a sad day