Remembrance Day,The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month

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The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month marks the signing of the Armistice, on November 11, 1918, signalling the end of the Great War as the guns finally fell silent on the Western Front after more than four years of fighting.

Poppies now bloom across some of the deadliest battlefields of World War I.  The bright red colour has become a symbol for the blood spilled in the war.

It was the British author, H.G. Wells, that coined the expression: "The war that will end war" to describe World War One, which had broken out in Europe in September 1914. Wells believed the conflict would create a new world order that would make future conflict impossible.

 

“the War To End All Wars” Poem by Stanley Cooper

“The war to end all wars” they said 
And were naively believed 
By those who now are honorably dead 
Never knowing they were deceived 

Wars are peddled with promised glory 
With patriotic fervor, wars are sold 
To those who die in warring gory 
Without their right of growing old 

For future generations, I’ve great concern 
They needn’t set their world ablaze 
For their survival they must discern 
The peaceful road to better days 

 

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