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Remembering The Veterans Of WWI April 6th, 1917 The United States Entered WWI World War I, also known as the First World War, and (before 1939) the Great War, the War of the Nations, and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice on November 11, 1918. The Allied Powers (led by Britain, France (and Russia until 1917), and, after 1917, the United States) defeated the Central Powers (led by the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire). The war caused the collapse of four empires and a radical...

I brought two of my sons to the Remembrance Day event in Vancouver Canada this morning. Seeing the different services standing at attention, the war veterans, some walking proudly with their medals and ribbons on their chests, some being pushed in wheelchairs, seeing the vintage aircraft flying overhead, and listening to the mournful wails of bagpipes, stirred strong emotions within me. We Canadians have done so much preserving freedom and fighting against overwhelming odds in our past. We Canadians stood our ground in the trenches of WWI while the French and other Allies turned tail and ran when poisoned gas...