Remembrance Day: The 11th of The 11th of 1918

Lisa & Russell opened the show with a touching reflection on Remembrance Day. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is Remembrance Day, formally known as Armisiste Day, which
it was until after World War Two when because they
weren't expecting to have another war, and so the armistice
was signed at eleven o'clock on the eleventh of the
eleventh of nineteen eighteen.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
And that's why every year we have a minute silence
we do at eleven o'clock, which we will this morning.
We will pay tribute at eleven.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Am on ninety six a FM one hundred and seven
years ago. The war didn't stop though. The war didn't
officially end until nineteen nineteen, which always confused me as
a kid. I used to see the war memorials and
it would say nineteen fourteen to nineteen nineteen, and I
thought it was nineteen eighteen.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
But the armistice was a suspension, that's correct, the fighting
to allow them to secure an end, which they did, which.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
They did in June of nineteen nineteen, which didn't go
so well and it didn't take let's just say, was
the catalyst for what came in World War two, sadly,
certainly certainly in Europe anyway. So today is a day
that we remember all of Australians, all the Australians who
fell in all wars, in all wars, and civilians too.

(01:16):
You know, everybody forgets that a lot of civilians perish
in wars as well. We remember everything it.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Comes of them.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Nothing good ever comes from. But today's a good day
to pick up a poppy. There will be RSL volunteers
will be everywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
They've been everywhere for a few days now, but they
will definitely be everywhere today.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
You'll find them at various shopping centers and other places
around Perth. I know Willies are doing things Bunnings office works,
but numerous places around around Perth, around way where you
will be able to pick up a poppy to mark
Remembrance Day. Twenty twenty five