Armistice Day

The 11 November is Armistice Day. On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month 1918, the First World War came to an end. The Western Front was the last theatre of war, and this was where the guns finally fell silent.

The First World War was a war that should not have had to happen. It broke a whole generation of Europeans. After the war, people said this was ”the war to end all wars”, but just about twenty years later, the Second World War started. Even more people died in the Second World War. 

Sweden managed to stay out of the world wars. Mexico did, too. We still believe we must remember the wars. It is only if we remember the wars, we can make sure no such hardships will happen again.