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11/11/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Armistice Day Silence

The traditional two-minute silence to mark Armistice Day.

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the guns fell silent and the First World War came to an end. Today, on the eleventh of November, we remember in silence, all those who have given their lives in war, in the cause of peace and freedom.

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