\u00a0Here is a photo<\/a> of the recording that took place when the guns fell silent. \u00a0My two grandfathers were in that war. \u00a0It\u2019s sobering that you see the noise of the bombardments and then, in a minute, quiet. \u00a0We forget how horrible was World War I. \u00a0Overshadowed by the Second World War, the carnage visited on actual servicemen was almost the same. \u00a0 Most of the causalities of WWII came by way of citizen casualties, and then primarily at the hands of Axis Powers, especially those 20 million Russians who were killed. \u00a0But in WWI, survival on the lines was far from a mathematical certainty, and on this day, 98 years ago, they finally had a fighting chance.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1918, the British were using recordings and the recorded signals were recorded on film. \u00a0Here is a photo of the recording that took place when the guns fell silent. \u00a0My two grandfathers were in that war. \u00a0It\u2019s sobering that you see the noise of the bombardments and then, in a minute, quiet. \u00a0We forget […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-memorial"],"yoast_head":"\n
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