Dulce et Decorum Est...

It was a phrase first used by the Roman poet Horace, meaning "it is sweet and proper to die for your country".

But if you studied the war poets for English A level, as I did, it immediately brings back memories of studying the works of Wilfred Owen. He wrote a very famous poem called "Dulce et Decorum Est" about the horrors of real-life war in the trenches.

Today in the studio we also heard a modern poem, written by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. It's called "Last Post", and it is now part of a new display at Windsor Castle. It's worth listening to it - have a look!

Meanwhile, thanks to all our lovely listeners who told me their personal stories of what they were remembering during the two minutes silence.

Reg, from Reading, was an absolute star. He's 88, and was in the Home Guard until he was old enough to join up in 1941 and then he joined the RAF, as a engineer, maintaining bombers in the UK and then later in Germany - where he was shot in the back by German fighter planes who were strafing the Allied airbases, as they retreated. He described his two minutes silence today as "a kaleidoscope of faces and memories". And a sea of poppies.