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Celebrating Veteran's Day


Letter to my grandmother November 11, 1918, 11:30 a.m.


Dearest,

Have just come in from outside where I heard the bells of Verdun (where I am) ring out announcing that peace has been declared or rather that the armistice has been signed. ...


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