Quotation for Today, Armistice Day, 11 November
2009 November 11
“that at the hour when the Armistice came into force, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, there may be for the brief space of two minutes a complete suspension of all our normal activities … so that in perfect stillness, the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the glorious dead.”
from the proclamation by George V, then King of the United Kingdom, on 17 November 1919, establishing the two minute silence.
