General / Off-Topic 'Eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month'

[Le-Betz]

I just realized that now 100 years ago the fighting of first world war ended.

Some years ago I visited the old battlefield of Verdun with that giant graveyard and the ossuary. Also I visited the old Fort Douaumont and I could barely imagine what a relieve these cold, dark and damp caverns must have been for the men back in these days to be safe from the bombardment, although it was only a short time before they had to return to the slaughter at the surface. Today grass has grown over the place, but countless craters are still visible, giving an impression of the unimaginable violence of the battle shaping this landscape.

I was deeply impressed by all that and more than once it gave me a shiver. But also it gave me a feeling of deep gratefulness to be so lucky to live in a time of peace, at least for our European continent. To me that visit was a very moving experience and I think every European, every human being should visit that place and feel what I felt this day.

 

[Patrick_68000]

In fact the armistice is not the end of the war.

It's just a suspension of the hostilities which allows to find solutions to stop the war definitively.

The true end of the war was decreed during the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919.

The New York Times anticipated a little.

 

[Le-Betz]

That's why I wrote 'the fighting of first world war ended', not 'the war ended'.

Edit:
Wonderful that you, my french friend, are the first to react to my post, I think that shows nicely how far we have come since these days.

 

[Patrick_68000]

That's why I wrote 'the fighting of first world war ended', not 'the war ended'.

Yes I read well.

I corrected my post by pointing to the New York Times.