in France ending World War I. Armistice Day, as it was known then, ended four years of bloody
conflict. People throughout the world blew whistles, held impromptu parades, closed places of
business and paid tribute to their fallen soldiers.
Armistice Day was observed in 1919 and beyond with veterans' parades, religious and secular
services and two minutes of silence to honor the dead. In 1920, the British Unknown Soldier was
buried in Westminster Abbey and the French Unknown Soldier at the Arc De where a perpetual
flame burns.
In 1921, the American Unknown Soldier, found in a battleground in Germany, arrived in
Washington, D.C. and was