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World War 1 Armistice Day Centenary

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World War 1 Armistice Day Centenary

"I glanced at my watch. One minute to 11:00, thirty seconds, fifteen. And then it was 11:00 A.M., the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. I was the only audience for the greatest show ever presented." 

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Armistice? Or Keep Going?

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Armistice? Or Keep Going?

Don't waste this fighting spirit, Pershing warned, "An armistice would lead the Allied Armies to believe this the end of fighting and it would be difficult if not impossible to resume hostilities with our present advantage in morale in the event of failure to secure at a peace conference what we have fought for."

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WW1 Booth at Homeschool Conference

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WW1 Booth at Homeschool Conference

All in all, we can report the younger generation is eager to learn more about WWI, and we encourage all our readers to get busy teaching them!

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More of the March 1918 Air War

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More of the March 1918 Air War

There is so much going on in aviation history of 1918 that there isn't time to blog about each of the events; we'll have to wrap up March with a summary of things that happened this month that we haven't yet covered.

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January 1918 - Flu Season Begins, for THE Flu

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January 1918 - Flu Season Begins, for THE Flu

"As sparsely populated and isolated as Haskell was, the virus infecting the county might well have died there, might well have failed to spread to the outside world. That would be so except for one thing: this was wartime."

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