On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month on 1918 the fighting of the First World War stopped. In 1919 an Australian journalist, Edward George Honey, wrote to the London Evening News suggesting that this time should be marked by a respectful silence to remember those who had died. When King George V read the letter he issued a proclamation which called for a two minute silence:
"So that, in perfect stillness, the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverant remembrance of the glorious dead."
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