GC33KHR Armistice / Veterans Day Flash Mob Event (Event Cache) in Washington, United States created by Martin 5

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Martin 5: [green]It has been 11 days since the event was held on 11/11/11, so I guess it is time for it to go!! We hope to see everyone next year on 11/11/12 for our 3rd annual Veterans Day Event!!

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A cache by Martin 5 Message this owner

Hidden : Friday, November 11, 2011

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HISTORY: Armistice Day (also known as Remembrance Day) is on 11 November and commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918.

The date was declared a national holiday in many allied nations, to commemorate those members of the armed forces who were killed during war. An exception is Italy, where the end of the war is commemorated on 4 November, the day of the Armistice of Villa Giusti.

After World War II, the name of the holiday was changed to Veterans Day in the United States and to Remembrance Day in countries of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Armistice Day remains an official holiday in France. It is also an official holiday in Belgium, known also as the Day of Peace in the Flanders Fields.

In many parts of the world, people take a two-minute moment of silence at 11:00 a.m. local time as a sign of respect for the roughly 20 million people who died in the war.

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FUTURE: Armistice / Veterans Day Flash Mob.
November 11, 2011 at 10:50 a.m.

LOCATION: The site of a 1930 Armistice Day dedication.

FLASH MOB: Arrive by 10:50 a.m. and sign the log located at ground zero.

At 11:00 a.m. we will observe 2 minutes of silence.

At 11:11 a.m. the event will be declared over.

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