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ariadnes_string) wrote2011-11-11 08:46 am
ariadnes_string) wrote2011-11-11 08:46 am
in the eleventh hour
...of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the First World War officially ended.
I couldn't find the kind of image of the 1918 Armistice that I wanted, so have some pictures of a new memorial to Wilfrid Owens instead.
The old farm house where he spent the night before he died in the battle of the Sambre-Oise Canal, Nov.4, 1918, one of the last actions of the war has been transformed into a memorial to his poetry:
source
And, in case you you haven't read it lately: Dulce et Decorum Est
I couldn't find the kind of image of the 1918 Armistice that I wanted, so have some pictures of a new memorial to Wilfrid Owens instead.
The old farm house where he spent the night before he died in the battle of the Sambre-Oise Canal, Nov.4, 1918, one of the last actions of the war has been transformed into a memorial to his poetry:
source
And, in case you you haven't read it lately: Dulce et Decorum Est