For Canadians Especially: "Lest We Forget" Remembrance Day 2007.jpg -- A Preamble

"MagisterMax" wrote in message
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Thanks for the reminder, SW. Yes, we really do observe 11-11-11-11.

Too many elevens. Fighting ceased atthe 11th hour of the 11th day
of the 11th month of 1918.
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http://www.sherylweb.com/holidays/veterans_day.html
In 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month,
the world rejoiced and celebrated. After four years of bitter war, an
armistice was signed. The "war to end all wars" was over.

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http://www.nytimes.com/learning/gene.../big/1111.html

The State Department in Washington Made the Announcement at 2:45 o'Clock
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ARMISTICE WAS SIGNED IN FRANCE AT MIDNIGHT
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Terms Include Withdrawal from Alsace-Lorraine, Disarming and Demobilization
of Army and Navy, and Occupation of Strategic Naval and Military Points
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By The Associated Press


Washington, Monday, Nov. 11, 2:48 A.M.--The armistice between Germany, on
the one hand, and the allied Governments and the United States, on the
other, has been signed.

The State Department announced at 2:45 o'clock this morning that Germany had
signed.

The department's announcement simply said: "The armistice has been signed."

The world war will end this morning at 6 o'clock, Washington time, 11
o'clock Paris time.

The armistice was signed by the German representatives at midnight.

This announcement was made by the State Department at 2:50 o'clock this
morning.

The announcement was made verbally by an official of the State Department in
this form:

"The armistice has been signed. It was signed at 5 o'clock A.M., Paris time,
[midnight, New York time,] and hostilities will cease at 11 o'clock this
morning, Paris time, [6 o'clock, New York time.]

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http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/armistice.htm

Colonel Thomas Gowenlock served as an intelligence officer in the American
1st Division. He was on the front line that November morning and wrote of
his experience a few years later:

"On the morning of November 11 I sat in my dugout in Le Gros Faux, which was
again our division headquarters, talking to our Chief of Staff, Colonel John
Greely, and Lieutenant Colonel Paul Peabody, our G-1. A signal corps officer
entered and handed us the following message:

Official Radio from Paris - 6:01 A.M., Nov. 11, 1918. Marshal Foch to
the Commander-in-Chief.
1. Hostilities will be stopped on the entire front beginning at 11
o'clock, November 11th (French hour).
2. The Allied troops will not go beyond the line reached at that hour
on that date until further orders.

[signed]
MARSHAL FOCH
5:45 A.M.


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Every
school in every province in Canada will have an observance, whether it's a
minute of silence in every classroom or a special ceremony.

True, Armistice day was observed at 11:00 AM (local) time with 2 minutes
of silence in all schools. However now some province have made November
11
a statutary holiday so the obseravnce in these schools.