LICHFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 09: A Royal British Legion standard bearer takes part in the Remembrance Day Service marking the 90th anniversary since the end of World War I at the Armed Forces Memorial at The National Arboretum on November 9, 2008, near Lichfield, England. The Armed Forces Memorial, is the UK's tribute to all conflicts where men and women have been killed on duty, or as a result of terrorist action since 1948. The Armed Forces Memorial has been designed to allow a shaft of sunlight to fall across the sculpted wreath on the central stone on Armistice Day at precisely 11:00am on the 11th day of the 11th month, the time when fighting formally stopped in World War I. Getty Images logo Getty Images 43 months ago

LICHFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM - NOVEMBER 09: A Royal British Legion standard bearer takes part in the Remembrance Day Service marking the 90th anniversary since the end of World War I at the Armed Forces Memorial at The National Arboretum on November 9, 2008, near Lichfield, England. The Armed Forces Memorial, is the UK's tribute to all conflicts where men and women have been killed on duty, or as a result of terrorist action since 1948. The Armed Forces Memorial has been designed to allow a shaft of sunlight to fall across the sculpted wreath on the central stone on Armistice Day at precisely 11:00am on the 11th day of the 11th month, the time when fighting formally stopped in World War I.

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