Tomorrow morning at 11:11 a.m. we shall pause to remember one of the greatest moments of transition in history, a transition from war to peace. The moment when the armistice was signed which ended World War 1. Over eight and a half million soldiers died in the great war. I shall be pausing to remember those who were sacrificed, and the grandfather I never new.
There are transitions in everyone’s life, but rarely of the magnitude and scale that took place between 1914 and 1918. This has been termed the end of absolutism. Prior to the great war it was still possible for the average person to live out their life without being aware of any change taking place. Things were done as they always had been done and always would be done. The life of each generation differed little from the previous one. The great war changed all that, and since that time change has accelerated to the point where we are in a constant state of transition, chaos. My hope is that out of this chaos will emerge a peaceful world. A world without wars that need to be remembered. What a transition that will be.
David M. Hobson November 1994
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