Some Sights from Remembrance Day

Bill writes: As Aline mentioned yesterday, the Remembrance Day celebrations have been going on in St. James Park, as well as along the mall leading to Buckingham Palace. I thought it might be worthwhile sharing some of the sights of the past two days, as a counter to Thursday's terrible events.

On Saturday, there were recreations of what life was like in London during the war, including music hall shows, displays of cards on which people wrote and shared their memories, and RAF squadron scrambles.

Today, meanwhile, began with a parades of veterans and the Queen, including one by the Queen, followed by flyovers of World War II aircraft. It ended with over a million poppies dropped from a Lancaster bomber used at Normandy, in remembrance of those who fought and died.