At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 2018 at the “Buddy” World War I statue in Harrisburg’s River Front Park there were only five people to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the Great War.
But 15 minutes later there was a band; a motorcycle club; city, county and state politicians; a gold star mother and veterans joined together to remember Armistice Day which is now called Veterans Day.
The statue at the center of it all “Lest We Forget” was dedicated 96 years ago in memory of local Harrisburg boys who went off to fight in the war to end all wars and came back men, if they came back at all.
