Thread: Literary Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
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Old 08-04-2014, 11:33 AM   #76
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I thought this article has some touching photos of remembrance events happening today around the world.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...y-service.html

The Telegraph is doing an hour by hour replay of events from August 4th, 1914.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/w...-unfolded.html

Parliament, Tower Bridge and many other sites will go dark between 10-11PM to signify when Britain declared war against Germany and symbolic of Sir Edward Grey's famous remark, "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."
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