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Royal couple remember war dead in France ; Veterans lay wreaths at Cenotaph in London

Article from: Belfast Telegraph Article date: November 11, 2008 Author: ROBERT DEX; LAURA MAY

THE Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall joined French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy at the French National Cemetery Douaumont near Verdun today.

Verdun was the site of the longest-lasting battle between France and Germany in the First World War.

Three of the last surviving veterans of the First World War joined serving soldiers in current conflicts today to mark the 90th anniversary of the day peace returned to Europe.

Henry Allingham (112), Harry Patch (110), and Bill Stone (108) led the nation as it remembered the sacrifices made by the 1914- 1918 ...

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90 Years On, It's Still the War to End All Wars

Posted Nov 11, 08 10:07 AM CST in Arts & Living,  Opinion 

90 Years On, It's Still the War to End All Wars
Source: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

(Newser) – Ninety years ago today the Allies and Germany signed the armistice that ended World War I, a conflict of unprecedented brutality and expense. But where today Americans celebrate Veterans Day, a commemoration of wars' survivors, in Europe the mood is "altogether more somber," historian Alexander Watson writes in the New York Times. In Britain and France especially, today—Armistice Day—is a day for the dead.

In Britain, tens of millions of citizens wear red paper poppies to commemorate the 700,000 men who died in the trenches. In France, which lost 1.4 million, mayors read out the names of the fallen while military bands play the national anthem. Ninety years on, writes Watson, Armistice Day reminds us that we still need ritual and remembrance to understand the horrors of "the war to end all wars."

Source: New York Times

More about:  Great Britain • France • veterans • World War I • Veterans Day • Great War

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