11am, 11/11/1918

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James H
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If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

I know most people here will. Please remember to stop today for two minutes.
Jenny
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Something's just struck me about this "eleventh hour" business. If it was 11am French time, doesn't that make it 10am GMT? Or was Paris on GMT in 1918?

EDIT: Hmmm. Apparently it was on GMT. France didn't go to Central European Time until it was imposed on them by the Germans in WW2, and they never changed it back. Fancy that.
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