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Armistice Veterans Day (at least to Americans)

November 11, 2022 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 2 Comments

The decision had been negotiated and made. While the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, the official end of the Great War, was celebrated on the 11th hour of the 11th month in 1918. It took longer to arrange the rules for peace. (Which actually turned out to be the rules to effect a Second World War!)

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Armistice Veterans Day

November 11, 2016 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 13 Comments

It was on the 11th hour of the 11th month in 1918 that “The Great War” ended. Thaw was what the he first World War (no one expected the second- but they should have) was called that back then. It’s the name my father learned, too- and it was among the last sanctioned battles in which my grandfather (my mother’s father) was a participant.

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