{"id":3653,"date":"2009-11-11T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T09:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/11\/lest-we-forget.html"},"modified":"2009-11-11T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T09:44:09","slug":"lest-we-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/11\/lest-we-forget.html","title":{"rendered":"Lest we forget&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/r1803815430.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"r1803815430.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/212\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/11\/r1803815430-thumb-375x247-9304.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" height=\"247\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIn Kabul, a military chaplain prepares for a service in a British cemetery to mark Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n<p>Commonwealth countries as well as other countries around the world observe two minutes of silence at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month (11:00 am, 11 November), marking the time (in the United Kingdom) the Germans signed the Armistice which ended World War I in 1918.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<br \/><i>Photo by Jerry Lampen \/ Reuters<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Kabul, a military chaplain prepares for a service in a British cemetery to mark Remembrance Day. 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