11th day of 11th month: War dead honored on Armistice Day
Francesca Shaw, from Leeds, UK, center, prepares to lay a wreath during an Armistice Day ceremony under the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. The Menin Gate Memorial bears the names of more than 54,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are not known.
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: November 11, 2017
LONDON — Millions of people in Britain and France paused to remember the victims of war Saturday on Armistice Day, which marks the anniversary of the end of World War I.
Across Britain, people stopped in streets, squares and railway stations for two minutes of silence starting at 11 a.m. The moment — the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month — marked 99 years since the guns fell silent at the end of the Great War on Nov. 11, 1918.
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