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At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month

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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
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Tyne Cot Cemetery, Paschendaele, Flanders.

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