Tag: Armistice Day
The Last to Fall – World War One’s Tragic Final Casualties
“Of the war’s more than 22 million casualties, a staggering 11,000 were killed or wounded during that last morning of fighting.” OF THE MILLIONS OF STORIES OF SACRIFICE AND LOSS to come out of the First…
Lest We Forget — How Different Countries Remember Their War Dead
“The small artificial flowers, which are pinned to the lapel, symbolize the poppies that grew in Flanders fields during the First World War.” EVERY NOV. 11 at exactly 11 a.m., life throughout much of the British…
