100 years ago on this day, guns and rifles fell silent on the battlefields of Europe. After 4 years, the first world war ended. This war was a conflict that shaped the world forever, what once started with cheering later changed the course of history and caused a political firestorm that was unknown to the world. The results of this "War to end all wars“ can still be seen today. It cost about 19,000,000 military personnel, and about 9,000,000 civilians’ lives. With over 100 nations involved, it was the biggest conflict the world has ever seen at that time. The ember of The First World War and the Treaty of Versailles would later start the fire of WW2. ———————————————
My thoughts are with all the people left blind, deaf, mutilated, abused or dead in the war. The men and women involved are the least we forget. May their soles rest in peace and always be remembered.🙏🏻🥀
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For the Fallen
by Laurence Binyon
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[...] They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them. 🥀
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