Armistice Day

108 years ago today, on Nov. 11, 1918, hostilities in what was then known as “The Great War” — World War I — officially ceased with the effect of an armistice signed between Germany and the Allied Powers (the United Kingdom, France, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan). The armistice was supposed to begin “a…

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