I just read on history.com, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, silence was heard by soldiers along the Western Front in France. Just north of Paris, that morning, about 5 a.m., an armistice was signed by Germany and the Allied nations. World War I was to end. Our United States Congress on June 4, 1926, officially recognized the end of World War I with a resolution: “Whereas the 11th of November, 1918, marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far r … (read more)
