November 11

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Today is Remembrance Day.

At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year 1918, the First World War came to an end as Germany signed the armistice with the Allied Powers.

It remains, throughout the free world, a day to pause and reflect and honor the sacrifice of those who serve their countries in the times of most dire need.

At eleven o'clock, where will you be?

Lest We Forget

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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

[more] What else happened today

1895 — The Lee-Enfield rifle was introduced as the .303 calibre, Rifle, Magazine, Lee-Enfield, or more commonly simply Magazine Lee-Enfield, or MLE (sometimes spoken as "emily" instead of M, L, E). 1938 — Immediately after the infamous Kristallnacht, German Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick passes Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons, effectively depriving Jews of the right to possess firearms or other personal weapons for self-defense. This was possible under the 1938 German Weapons Act, passed earlier in the year, which restricted ownership of firearms to "persons whose trustworthiness is not in question."

Today in pictures

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  2006: Poppies are laid on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Remembrance Day in Ottawa.

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  RCAC cadet at Remembrance ceremony in 2009.