The Armistice is signed at 5.00am and comes into effect at 11.00am.
At 10.57am Canadian Private George Lawrence Price is killed while on patrol in Canal du Centre. He is the last soldier to die in action on the Western front..
The year is 1918 and ever since then the world has honoured this day. The main global emblem is the a Red Poppy from the fields of Flanders
It matters little whatever you may call it, whether it is Remembrance Day or Veterans Day, or something else – It’s a moment in time annually when millions are brought together at single a moment and its significance is thought about.
The rights and wrongs of wars do not matter on this day; the fact they happened and continue to happen is the reality.
This year, I think about the thousands of 18yr old and obviously older soldiers in bitter pain, with wounds that will not last the for the duration of a few years of war – but a life time.
We seem little to realise that we’re living the futures history today and we’re all so ready to forget or simply not understand the horror, pain and sacrifice of yesterday’s battles.
It is not with callous disregard we forget, but the purely human nature to heal and move on.
But it is vital for all those alive, no matter where you are in the world, or what flag your heart, mind and soul stands below, it does not even matter what your faith is, Christian, Muslim or Jew and others.
Today we remember, in more modern times we also feel the pain of loss and the sacrifices made – in that sense, today we become one.
At 11 o’clock this morning, wherever you are in the world, whatever your nationality or faith, stop what you’re doing and give just a single minute of your time silently as we all remember.
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That is one of the most simple straight forward things I’ve read about today. I will think about it today.