Today, the world remembers the end of World War I, the war to end all wars - wishful thinking I fear. So, at the 11:00 hour the guns stopped.
Well, sort of. The French refused to stop shooting Germans for another year, did not matter that the Germans had laid down their guns. A good German was after-all a dead German. The French continued their in your face attitudes towards the Germans for many years, laying the groundwork for Germany's nationalistic fervor leading to WWII. Sigh.
The Americans shifted a portion of their troops to Northern Russia and the Russian Pacific coast in an attempt to support a rational post revolutionary form of government. Shame it did not have any effect other than to cause strained relations for decades.
So, a photo memory of that Great War. A British Mark IV crewed by Germans and with German markings ...
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