Today is Veterans Day, honoring Americans who have served in the armed forces.
November 11th was originally called Armistice Day
because it was on this day in 1918 that the First World War
came to an end. The armistice was signed at 11:00 a.m.
on the 11th hour
of the 11th day
of the 11th month of the year.
After four years of brutal trench fighting,
9 million soldiers had died and
21 million were wounded.
It was called 'The War to End All Wars'
because it was the bloodiest war in history
up to that point,
and it made many people so sick of war
that they hoped no war would ever break out again.
published / read over the airwaves of
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO's
"Writer's Almanac" by
writer-narrator Garrison Keillor.
on Nov. 11, 2010.
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