Armistice/Remembrance Day - 1919

[Covenanter]

My mother remember her part in the very first 2 minute silence when she was 6.

She was out with her little sister, pushing iron wheeled dolls' prams along the cobbled street.

Suddenly, everything & every one stopped. Horses, carts & people, everything - except 2 little girls & their noisy prams - & all the grown-ups saying shhhhhhh!

[John81]

I spent much of my early years around a World War One veteran and his wife. I've been told that at the time the Armistice took effect there was a "deafening" silence along the lines.

My friend suffered greatly from that war, both mentally and physically. He was never able to go into any detail about his time at war and could never talk about it for more than a few minutes at a time. His throat was damaged by the gas used in the war and really hampered his ability to talk in an understandable way as he became older.

[irishman]

Our country was at its peak right after WWll, it has gone downhill ever since and may never recover.