Armistice Day: 'Remembering the sobering realities of going to war'
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"Everybody needs to learn from what happened" - armed forces, veteran's groups and civilians marked Armistice Day with two minutes of silence at 11am today.
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Background: Armistice Day
Armistice Day, later known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth and Veterans Day in the United States, is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, at 5:45 am for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at 11:00 am - the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918 - although, according to Thomas R.3
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