In the day leading up to Poppy Day,about 32million people in Britain buy and wear small poppies because day think that white symbolises peace.then, 11 am. On 11 November there's a two minute. Silence.manypeople stop and think quietly about soldiers who died.there are ceremonies at war memorials in town and village or over the country.the most important ceremony is in London ,when then queen and the prime minister lay wreaths of poppies at the cenotaph,monument to soldiers who died in battle