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The Eleventh Hour : The Story of Veterans Day
Overview
The Great War ended at eleven o'clock in the morning on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Everybody had known it was coming for six hours. A man from Baltimore named Henry Gunther was killed at one minute before eleven. For a long time the day belonged only to that war, and only to the dead. Then a man from Birmingham named Raymond Weeks spent the rest of his life arguing that it should belong to all of them - every American who put on the uniform, including the ones who came home. This is how a day changed its name and its meaning, and what the silence is for. For the ones who came home, and for the ones who came home different.
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- ISBN-13: 9798952854239
- ISBN-10: 9798952854239
- Publisher: Jeffersonian Institute of America
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.5 x 0.25 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.66 pounds
- Page Count: 26
- Reading Level: Ages 7-12
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