“What does Remembrance Sunday mean for you? What is your message?” asked host Kate Garraway to Alec Penstone last Friday on Good Morning Britain, a popular morning show in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Penstone is a 100-year-old veteran of the Second World War who cleared mines on D-Day and is known in the U.K. as the nation’s oldest poppy-seller. Since the end of the First World War, red poppies have been a symbol of commemoration of military sacrifice, especially in the nations of the former British Empire. The U.K.’s Remembrance Day is its own descendent of Armistice Day, remembering the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Great War formally ended.

In the United States, this has become Veterans Day.

Mr. Penstone’s answer has reverberated around the globe. “My mess

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