This Sunday, November 11, is the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, the Armistice was signed. The Great War took the lives of 10 million soldiers worldwide, including over 117,000 Americans, and decimated the French and Belgian countryside. Singularly, the windblown seeds of poppies thrived in the blood-soaked soil, and became a symbol of the dead, as memorialized in John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields.” Read more about WWI in On the Shore (see NOVELS).
