Why do we mark Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday?

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Why do we mark Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday?
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Each year, people across the UK take part in Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday to commemorate those who gave their lives for the country.

Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday first started in 1919 as a way to pay tribute to those who gave their lives in the First World War .

Remembrance Day was first inaugurated by King George V as families grappled with the unfathomable loss experienced during the bloody conflict which ended a year earlier.

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