New blog  Ubikcan is dead!  Long live ubikcan (at its new
location)   Veterans Day 2006  Today is Veterans Day in America
and Remembrance Day in Europe. Poppies are used to symbolize the
fields of France and the trench warfare of WWI. In Britain a
major observance will also take place on Remembrance Sunday
(tomorrow).  In the UK most people wear special paper and
plastic poppies in the lapel, some with a sprig of leaf on them.
Even school children buy them (whether by choice or not), and
usually all figures in the public eye (soccer managers,
newscasters etc.).  Veterans Day marks the anniversary of the
coming into effect of the Armistice during WWI (technically an
armistice is a cease-fire so the war did not end until the
signing of the peace treaty at the Paris Peace Conference* in
June 1919, but most people disregard this and count the war as
lasting from 1914-18).  The Armistice came into effect (on
purpose) on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day or the
eleventh month, but had actually been agreed earl