Next Tuesday, November 11, we celebrate Veterans' Day. So do the Brits, for the same reason - the Great War, aka World War I ended with an armistice on November 11, 1918.
In honor of that war, which began just 100 years ago in July of 1914, the Brits have done something strange and wonderful, and terrifying too. For each British and Commonwealth soldier who died in that war, they have "planted" a ceramic red poppy in the moat of the Tower of London, a total of 888,246 poppies.
The blood red flowers fill the huge moat, and it is a stunning, terrible sight. CBS News has video of the scene. Britain lost a generation of young men in the brutal trench warfare in France, on the hills of Gallipoli, and at sea against the U-boats.
