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How The War Memorial in Colombo came into Being-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Dr. Narme F. Wickremesinghe, in the Sunday Times  https://www.sundaytimes.lk/071111/Plus/plus00012.html  …….. where the  title is  “The Genesis of the National Remembrance Park” The red poppy which s”ymbolizes the blood of war heroes is from the poppy that grows in Flanders, France, a Remembrance Park for the war dead. It was at 11 a.m. on November 11 (- the 11th month) 1918 that the Armistice was signed, bringing to an end the First World War. The war heroes are remembered on the Sunday closest to November 11th at 11 a.m. with two minutes silence and all life comes to a standstill including electronic channels and vehicular movement. In this article I will give you an account of how Sri Lanka’s Flanders – the Remembrance Park at Mailapitiya, off Kandy, came into being. ...