Czechs honour memory of war veterans

Czechs are marking International Veterans Day, which is celebrated internationally on November 11, the anniversary of the end of World War I.

A traditional ceremony took place at the national memorial on Prague’s Vítkov Hill on Friday morning. The event was attended by Defence Minister Jana Černochová and other public figures, who honoured the memory of the fallen by laying flowers and observing a minute’s silence.

Commemorations have been taking place in other Bohemian and Moravian cities. Poppies, the first flower seen to grow in the battlefields on the graves of fallen soldiers after WWI, have been planted on Moravské náměstí square in Brno, and people could purchase them to contribute to the care of war veterans and to the activities of the National Memory project.