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Veterans Day November 11th

Veteran's Day is a day set aside to honor the veterans of America's wars. It was originally known as Armistice Day to commemorate the official ending of hostilities in World War I - which occurred at the...

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In Flanders Fields

The last entry of the First World War poetry series "Shell Shocked Isabel Shrapnel" is a Special about the most famous poem from the First World War: In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae.

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A Visit to the World War I Battlefield of Verdun

On a 1979 trip to Europe with my younger sister we made a stop at the city of Verdun in northeastern France. Verdun is a medieval city whose origins date back to pre-Roman times. According to WikiPedia it...

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Shell Shocked Isabel Shrapnel (1)

"I am five, six, seven and my father has cake for my birthday and because it's Armistice Day..." - A young girl starts telling an amazing and horrific story about the Great War...

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