THE wounds were still raw, the true losses unquantified and the country still in a state of shock when the first Remembrance Day was held in November 1919.
At the 11th hour of the 11th day, the whole city fell silent for two minutes to remember the fallen.
On Argyle Street, the trams clattered to a halt, barrow boys laid down their loads, men removed their hats, shoppers stopped spending and an eerie silence fell over the whole city. Who knows what personal losses, privations and tragedies these people, our forebears, had suffered in the war years?
Tomorrow, at 11am, as people gather at the nation's war memorials and the bugle sounds the last post, take a second to remember all the brave Glasgow boys and girls who marched off to war, never to return.
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