Armistice Day

[agilis]

Today is Armistice Day. The significance of the day has been largely forgotten,and the date has been modified into a shopping opportunity. 89 years ago, at the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month, after 10 million had been killed, the guns fell silent and the Great War, the War to end all Wars, the cataclysmic event that defined the 20th Century and shaped the outlines of the contemporary world, came to an end.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

between the crosses row on row...

Who remembers the old men selling paper poppies on November eleventh?

 

[almitywife]

im proud to say its remembered well here.... my various nephews (i have 5) & niece tell me that on friday, their various schools had school ceremonies to commerate this day and my mother tells me that her local shopping mall came to a standstill in rememberance.

yesterday (sunday for me) i was actaully at a divers memorial service at 10.30am, both services were approx 100ft away from eachother and well attended

...the guns fell silent and the Great War, the War to end all Wars,....

lest we forget.....

 

[ScubaTexan]

...the guns fell silent...

I wish they would stay that way. :crying2:

 

[stu_in_fl]

interesting article in the BBC about the few British WW1 veterans still alive - includes the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland back in 1916 where the British Grand Fleet met the German High Seas Fleet. He is now 111 years old.

BBC NEWS | UK | Surviving WWI: Veterans' stories

and another story of the oldest British and German veterans meeting:
BBC NEWS | UK | Oldest war veterans make friends