Remembrance Day: Visiting the peaceful forest where the First World War ended

Source: Mike Armstrong, Global News, November 9, 2018 

This Remembrance Day is the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Until 1931, November 11th was known as Armistice Day. The armistice was the agreement signed between France and Germany that ended the war.

One of the most fascinating memorials to the First World War is in a place where there was no fighting and there are no graves.

The Glade of the Armistice is in a wooded area outside Compiegne, France, about 60 kilometres northeast of Paris.

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