A special quote:
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'' The Armistice came, the day we had dreamed of. The guns stopped, the fighting stopped. Four years of noise and bangs ended in silence. The killing had stopped.
We were stunned. I had been out since 1914. I should have been happy. I was sad. I thought of the slaughter, the hardships, the waste and the friends I had lost. ''
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Sergeant-Major Richard Tobin
Hodd Battalion, Royal Naval Division.
From the sound archives of the Imperial War Museum.
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On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month 1918 the First World War came to an end (except in Russia where it had come to an end in March of that year). Since then the day has been used as a memorial to all those who have died in that and subsequent wars. Despite the fact that the ceremony itself has been moved to Sunday in Britain, for many people across the world (it is called Veterans’ Day in the United States) this is the day of remembrance.
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