His parents received written notice of his death on the day the armistice was declared.
At heart, however, the DMZ remains a place of limbo, frozen in time by the armistice of 1953.
It was the first time that Syrians caught up in clashes were allowed to cross the armistice line.
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South Korea says North Korea cannot unilaterally dissolve the armistice and has called on Pyongyang to tone down its language.
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South Korea has said North Korea cannot unilaterally dissolve the armistice and has called on Pyongyang to tone down its rhetoric.
Veterans Day celebrates the armistice that ended World War I in 1918.
The armistice agreement, signed six hours earlier, was the designated time when their political masters had decided the slaughter would stop.
This year Remembrance Sunday falls on 11 November itself, the date of the armistice which brought World War I to an end.
It marks the moment WWI ended after four years of fighting, with the signing of the Armistice Treaty by Germany and the Allies.
Ian Martin, curator of the Kings Own Borderers Museum in Berwick, said the inscribed shell was most likely given to Beal after the Armistice.
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In Edinburgh about 500 members of the public joined veterans at a garden of remembrance to mark the signing of the Armistice in 1918.
Israel has also reinforced a fence that runs along the armistice line, and officials say Syrian refugees will not be allowed into Israel en masse.
The best thing to happen in Champagne since the restoration of the bombed-out Reims cathedral after the Armistice is the rise of the grower Champagne movement.
Thus, the proposed Jewish state would have been much smaller than the Israel defined by the armistice lines negotiated at the end of the 1948-49 war.
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Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, who lost his life in 1918 on the battlefield, shortly before the Armistice, and interwove them with the Latin Mass for the Dead.
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The signing of the Armistice 90 years ago marked the end of World War I, but Remembrance Day also recognises those who have died in conflicts since.
Some of the diplomats who drafted Resolution 242 said afterwards that they intended to allow for some changes in the armistice lines that separated Israel and its Arab neighbours before the war of 1967.
South Korean and U.S. officials say the armistice can't legally be canceled by any one party to it, but Seoul is concerned that the North is clearing a path for an attack or other provocation.
Shi Yuanhua, Koreas expert at Fudan University in Shanghai, tells China Daily that North Korea's threat to cancel the armistice is in protest against ongoing US-South Korean military drills using more powerful weapons and to "prompt Washington back to the negotiating table".
The US military said in a statement that the North Korean army had been informed of the exercises, which would be monitored by observers from other nations to ensure they did not break the armistice agreement signed at the end of the Korean War.
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While U.S. officials at the State Department and the Pentagon said the attack was a violation of the armistice that ended the fighting between the North and South in a stalemate in 1953, Crowley and the Pentagon's spokesman said it did not appear that North Korea intends a renewal of war.
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Crossing the border violates the 1953 armistice between the two Koreas.
And along with that would go the false armistice between governments and investors that has papered over the underlying financial crisis since 2008.
South and North Korea agree on need to end the current armistice and establish permanent peace.
Israel has been required to remove goods produced beyond the 1949 armistice lines from its free trade agreements with Europe.
Eddie Grant, a former infielder for the New York Giants and three other teams, was killed in action in the Argonne Forest in France, a month before the 1918 armistice.
Many will recognize it as the day of Armistice in 1918, the cessation of the most obscenely unnecessary of wars and, sadly, the onset of new foolishness that would lead to more ghastly carnage.
If the motive had been simply to stop the fighting and to save British shipping from harm, the first obvious course would have been to order merchantmen to stay away, and the second to aim the intervention at positions not on the canal but nearer the violated armistice line.
The silence was observed at Armistice Day services across the country at 1100 GMT.
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