Morning traders, Ninety-eight years ago today, the guns fell...

Morning traders,

Ninety-eight years ago today, the guns fell silent across the Western Front, marking the end of a conflict which claimed the lives of millions, including more than 60,000 Australians.

That will be marked with Remembrance Day services across Australia with the traditional one minute's silence at 11am when the armistice came into effect.

This Remembrance Day is a special occasion for the war memorial in Canberra, marking 75 years since it officially opened in 1941.

That came early in World War II while Australian troops were fighting in North Africa and Greece.

A month later they would be fighting much closer to home following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbour and invasion of Malaya.

In Sydney, the Australian National Maritime Museum will conduct a special Remembrance Day service in front of World War II Commando vessel Krait.

This event will be attended by members of the WW2 Commando Association and the Australian Commando Association.

Krait, a converted fishing boat, was used in one of Australia's most daring and successful operations, sailing boldly into Japanese-occupied waters with a team of Z Special Unit Commandos who attached mines to enemy ships in Singapore harbour, destroying seven.

AAP

Have a great and humble day, enjoying the democratic freedoms that many were slaughtered protecting .
Sounds dramatic and hard to believe buts its true, and once the slaughter was over in 1918, the world powers decided that just 21 years later in 1939, events necessitated another mass slaughter where again, millions of young men and woman had their lives violently ended.