On the 11th minute of 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 a permanent ceasefire was called along the Eastern and Western fronts, although troops continued to shoot at each other for several hours after the armistice ended the 4-year global conflict.
11-11-11 occurs once a century.
Someone in the armistice committee must have been heavily influenced by numerology to have chosen this powerful progression of the first prime number.
As if this magical combination could stop soldiers from killing each other.
George Lawrence Price was hit by the sniper’s bullet at 10:58 and the Canadian is thought to be the Great War’s last casualty.
Of course the time could have been a coincidences like 9/11/2001.
Today the major combatant nations of World War 1 commemorated their fallen dead.
Over 65 million soldiers participated in the struggle.
My grandfather and grandmother served in France for the Canadian Medical expedition. They came home on an ocean liner and married soon after their arrival in Maine. The two veterans lived together for thirty-two years. My grandfather died the year I was born and my grandmother passed away twenty years later.
She was the last World War I vets I knew.
The last surviving veteran was Claude Choules, who served Royal Navy during WW1. He died in 2011 aged 110. Rest in peace, soldiers!
Peace will come one day.
