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Armistice day

The date was a national holiday in many of allied nations to allow people to commemorate those members of the armed forces who were killed during war. This day in Poland is national day (also a public holiday) called Polish Independence Day. After World War II, it was changed to Veterans Day in the United States and to Remembrance Day in the British Commonwealth of Nations.

Armistice day

Soldiers who fought to keep us free
Gather on Armistice Day
Each one frail with a memory
Of wars fought far away

They fought on land, sea, and air
Gallant in their obligation
Their one and only care
To keep free, our great nation

In many parts of the world people take a two minute moment of silence at 11:00 a.m. as a sign of respect for the roughly eight million who died in the war, as suggested by Edward George Honey in a letter to a British newspaper although Wellesley Tudor Pole established two ceremonial periods of remembrance based on events in 1917.

Beginning in 1939 the two-minute silence was moved to the Sunday nearest 11 November in order not to interfere with wartime production should 11 November fall on a weekday. Since the 1990s a growing number of people have observed a two-minute silence on 11 November, resulting in both Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday being commemorated formally in the UK (although in 2007 they fell on the same day).

While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the ceasefire on the Western Front, hostilities continued in other regions, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Ottoman Empire. It used to be called veteran's Day.

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We walk the streets free from strife
With freedom of speech and thought
Because they paid the ultimate price
In the battles that they fought

Two minutes silence is all they demand
Two minutes from our year
Two minutes to honour them for their stand
That kept our freedom dear

I wonder if in future years
When they’ve all passed away
We’ll still be shedding tears
On Armistice Day.

Armistice Day is an official holiday in France. It is also an official holiday in Belgium, known also as the day of peace in the Flanders Fields.

Armistice Day is the anniversary of the symbolic end of World War I on 11 November 1918. It commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning - the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."

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In Flanders fields where poppies blow, beneath the crosses row on row, that marks our place and in the sky, larks still bravely singing fly. scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead short days ago, we lived felt dawn, saw sun set glow. and now we lie in flanders fields I don't know the rest! :)

01-Dec-2008 17:42:26
yonkers

my grampa fought in world war 2 against the germans was took part in the canadians bloodiest part of the war. i keep a poppy pin always for my grampa. my grampa made it through the war but he was forever changed bye it.

21-Nov-2008 00:39:13
Okeanos

flanders field was named after ned flanders

im srs

16-Nov-2008 07:11:26
irJen

Fabulouso group Kyle :D

11-Nov-2008 20:18:40
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In Memorial <3

10-Nov-2008 13:50:16
surf.mad.kyle

thanks for joining guys :)

09-Nov-2008 11:10:48
jacko2244

Joined :)

08-Nov-2008 11:24:15
Flourex

i was born on armistice day ;)

kthnxbye x

07-Nov-2008 15:34:41
FUNH0USE

dis is Bobba

05-Nov-2008 18:19:00
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Joined :)

05-Nov-2008 18:18:29
surf.mad.kyle

-spread

05-Nov-2008 17:03:02
surf.mad.kyle

wowowow -spreads guestbook out-

05-Nov-2008 17:02:52
surf.mad.kyle

Armistice day - 11th november

05-Nov-2008 17:00:44
surf.mad.kyle

Sign the guestbook and wear your poppy with pride!

05-Nov-2008 17:00:29