Editing Armistice Day (section)

== 21st century ==
{{Details|topic=commemorations of the war in different countries|Remembrance Day}}

In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries, Armistice Day is observed with a two minute silence (one minute in Australia) on the eleventh hour, with the main service taking place on [[Remembrance Sunday]] (also known as Remembrance Day).<ref>{{Cite web|title=REMEMBRANCE DAY definition and meaning {{!}} Collins English Dictionary|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/remembrance-day|access-date=2023-11-08|website=Collins English Dictionary|language=en}}</ref> Both days are commemorated formally but are not public holidays.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Remembrance Sunday {{!}} Remembrance Events {{!}} Royal British Legion|url=https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/remembrance/about-remembrance/armistice-day|access-date=2023-11-08|website=The Royal British Legion|language=en}}</ref> The [[National Service of Remembrance]] is held in London on Remembrance Sunday.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Remembrance Sunday {{!}} Remembrance Events {{!}} Royal British Legion|url=https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/remembrance/remembrance-events/remembrance-sunday|access-date=2021-07-21|website=The Royal British Legion|date=13 February 2019|language=en}}</ref>

In the United States, [[Veterans Day]] honors American veterans, both living and deceased. The official [[national remembrance|day of national remembrance]] of those killed in action is [[Memorial Day]], which predates World War I. Some, including American novelist [[Kurt Vonnegut]] and American [[Veterans For Peace|Veteran For Peace]] Rory Fanning, have urged Americans to resume observation of 11 November as Armistice Day, a day to reflect on how we can achieve peace as it was originally observed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/11/us-observe-armistice-day-more-comfortable-war-than-peace|title=Why doesn't the US observe Armistice Day? We're more comfortable with war than peace|last=Fanning|first=Rory|website=The Guardian|date=11 November 2014|access-date=18 November 2018}}</ref>

[[File:Parejas presidenciales de Francia y España, 2018.jpg|thumb|Presidential couple of France and Prime Ministerial couple of Spain in the centenary commemoration of the Armistice, 11 November 2018]]
In France, the holiday may also be known as Remembrance Day (''<span lang="fr">Jour du Souvenir</span>''). In [[Belgium]], it remains Armistice Day (''<span lang="fr">Jour de l'Armistice</span>'').<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publicholidays.be/armistice-day/|title=Public holidays global: Armistice Day|access-date=18 November 2018}}</ref>

The day has been a public holiday in [[Serbia]] since 2012. The Serbian forces suffered [[World War I casualties|the largest casualty rate in World War I]]. To commemorate their victims, people in Serbia wear [[Ramonda nathaliae|Natalie's ramonda]] as a symbol of remembrance.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.b92.net/eng/news/society.php?yyyy=2012&mm=11&dd=09&nav_id=83083|title=Serbia to mark Armistice Day as state holiday|date=9 November 2012|access-date=18 November 2018}}</ref>

In [[Poland]], 11 November is observed as [[National Independence Day (Poland)|National Independence Day]], a public holiday to commemorate the anniversary of the restoration of Poland's sovereignty as the [[Second Polish Republic]] in 1918, after 123 years of [[Partitions of Poland|partition]] by the [[Russian Empire]], the [[Kingdom of Prussia]] and the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire|Habsburg Empire]].<ref>[[Dziennik Ustaw]] [http://prawo.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU19370330255 1937 No. 33 position 255]{{Dead link|date=October 2022|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}, [http://prawo.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU19890060034 1989 No. 6 position 34] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227080959/http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU19370330255|date=27 February 2021}}</ref>

In [[Romania]], Armistice Day is observed as Veterans' Day or Combat Theater Veterans Day, the day also signifies the death of the first Romanian soldier in the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)|Afghanistan war]] on 11 November 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.defense.ro/11-noiembrie-ziua-veteranilor-din-teatrele-de-operatii|title=11 noiembrie - Ziua Veteranilor din Teatrele de Operații|language=ro|work=defense.ro|date=2023-11-11}}</ref> Since 2015, the [[Paeonia peregrina|Romanian peony]] is used to pay tribute to the Romanian soldiers who died on the battlefield.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rri.ro/en_gb/the_romanian_peony-2662607|title=The Romanian peony|work=[[Radio Romania International]]|author=Ana-Maria Cononovici|date=2022-08-09}}</ref>

Ceremonies are held in [[Kenya]] over the weekend two weeks after Armistice Day. This is because news of the armistice only reached today's [[Zambia]] (the then Northern Rhodesia) about a fortnight later, where the German and British commanders then had to agree on the protocols for their own armistice ceremony.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46329241|title=Where World War One finally ended|access-date=26 November 2018|archive-date=26 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126003302/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46329241|date=25 November 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref>

On 11 November 2018, the [[Centenary of the Armistice of 11 November 1918|centenary]] of the Armistice, commemorations were held globally. In France, more than 60 heads of state and government gathered at the [[Arc de Triomphe]] in Paris.<ref>{{cite news |last=Addley |first=Esther |date=12 November 2018 |title=People gather around world to mark armistice centenary |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/11/armistice-day-people-gather-around-world-mark-centenary |access-date=18 November 2018}}</ref>