The Huns Give Up
November 11 , 1918
" PEACE "
THESE PHOTO'S BELOW DONATED BY PAT MOHR TELL SO MUCH HISTORY . THE PHOTOS WERE DATED NOVEMBER 11 , 1918 TAKEN IN PARAGOULD , ARKANSAS . THESE WORDS " THE HUNS GIVE UP " WAS HAND WRITTEN ON THE OLD PHOTOS. YOU CAN TELL JUST BY STUDYING THE PHOTOS THAT A BIG CELEBRATION WAS TAKEN PLACE . AMERICAN FLAGS BEING WAVED . THE CROWD CHEERING , THE GREAT WAR WAS OVER , WWI.
BELOW IS SOME RESEARCH I FOUND ON THE IMPORTANT DATE PRINTED ON THE OLD PHOTOS.
THANK YOU !
PAT
RESEARCHED BY : TINA EASLEY
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NOVEMBER 11 , 1918
DOWNTOWN PARAGOULD , ARKANSAS
“HUNS STOP FIGHTING, GIVE UP ”
THE FRONTPAGE OF THE NEWSPAPERS PRINTED THE WORDS ABOVE , THE WORDS THAT WERE LONGED FOR IN THE HEARTS OF OUR ANCESTORS . WHO GAVE SO MUCH TO WWI. THE ARMISTICE HAD BEEN CONFIRMED THE GUNS WOULD FALL SILENT AND EUROPE WOULD BE AT PEACE . THE WORDS " THE HUNS GIVE UP " SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE TO AND THROUGHOUT OUR NATION TO ALL THE TOWNS AND SMALL COMMUNITIES.
THE NEWS WAS RECEIVED THAT HOSTILITIES HAD CEASED . IT WAS TO GOOD TO BELIEVE . PEACE , PEACE , PEACE ........
OUR PEOPLE FORGOT ABOUT THEIR EVERDAY LIFE , THEIR WORK , DROPPED WHAT THEY WERE DOING AND REJOICED IN THE STREETS .
OUR AMERICAN FLAG BEING WAVED , CHURCH BELLS RINGING , CAR HORNS BLOWING . TEARS OF REJOICE , TEARS OF SADNESS FOR THE BOYS THAT WOULD NEVER RETURN HOME , FOR THE SOLDIERS THAT GAVE THE EXTREME , THEIR LIVES NEVER AGAIN TO WALK UPON AMERICAN SOIL . SO MANY LIVES LOST , SO MANY LIVES CHANGED ,BEFORE , DURING AND AFTER THE GREAT WAR .
NOVEMBER 11TH WAS DECLARED ARMISTICE DAY BY PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON IN 1919 , TO HONOR THE SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR I . THE NAME WAS LATER CHANGED TO BE KNOWN AS VETERANS DAY IN 1954 TO HONOR ALL WHO SERVED .
THE PHOTOS BELOW SHOW HOW PEOPLE IN GREENE COUNTY CELEBRATED .
