11:00 HOUR of the 11th DAY of the 11th MONTH, WHEN AN ARMISTICE WITH GERMANY WENT INTO EFFECT
Thus, November 11TH is celebrated throughout Europe and other countries as "Armistice " or "Remembrance Day" to mark the anniversary of the end of major hostilities of the First World War. The 11th Artillery - Vietnam War - Gregory Grzymkowski's Unit As this date was approaching I felt confident I knew the reason to remember and define the significance of this date as the end of The War To End All Wars . I felt equally confident that in those countries devastated by wayward and designed bombs and who lost homes and millions of lives both soldier and civilian, would never forget the grim reality, the horror of war and solemnity of a date: 11/11. After all, it marked some of the firsts in man's ceaseless desire to develop the most hideous ways to kill another. If those Brits and French in the trenches were not mowed down by the first automatic weapon in the machine gun, then rudimentary tanks were rolling over bodies the artillery may have miss