Could Peace Sneak Up on Us?

A long newspaper life has taught us that peace can sometimes sneak up when one least expects it. Listen for the birds.

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British soldiers on the Western Front in World War I. Via Wikimedia Commons

Our view of Veterans Day hasn’t been quite the same since we listened to the end of World War I. That was in 2018, when the Imperial War Museum in Britain released its recordings made a century earlier along the Moselle River, and other sites, on the front, as the clock ticked toward the hour of the 1918 armistice, 11 a.m. on November 11— 11.11.11 — upon which the enormous roar of battle suddenly, eerily, unforgettably fell silent.

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