Remembrance Day ( or also known as Armistice Day ) is on November 11th 1918 ( the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918 ) commemorating the cessation of hostilities of World War I.

WWI was branded as the War to end all Wars.



I stumbled across a website that lists some pictures of landscapes that remain pretty much untouched since WWI.







Shell shock: Lochnagar Crater at the Somme as it is today. The picture is part of a collection of World War One landscapes which still bear the signs of war damage



The big bang: The detonation of buried British mines that formed the Lochnagar crater. The blast was heard 160 miles away in London in 1917
Source and more pics with stories at:

http://www.coolcrack.com/2011/11/ama...ape-still.html

dude i need to keep that link, that is some awesome teaching footage!

I visited the Somme battlefields and Ypres last year and found it a profoundly moving and sobering experience. There are battle scars all over both areas and I was amazed to hear how much old ammunition is still turned up by farmers ploughing fields and left at the side of the road for the army to come and pick up /dispose of. I understand that old gas shells are picked up as a priority as they are still exceedingly dangerous.

Could not agree more. Gave a short visit to the Verdun area in the mid80ies and was impressed in a way. Neither shocked nor surprised as I knew what scars weaponry causes but impressed to see that it is visible after so many years