11 Armistice Day Ceremony

November 11, 1942, a nation of war pauses briefly to pay tribute to its dead of other wars. By Frankland, President Frankland, D. Roosevelt, and General John G. Pershing at the Arlington National Cemetery, the nation will observe a minute of silence at exactly 11 a.m. Eastern wartime.

The presidential party arrived just a moment ago, and now the president is standing with General Pershing and Captain McCray has navelated his left directly in front of the strikingly simple unknown soldiers' tomb,

and the wreath of yellow chrysanthemums is being placed on the tomb which bears the inscription he arrests and honored glory an american soldier known but to god now the ruffles and flourishes, strikingly simple and austere and made of white marble now the official automobile is driving up to the point at which the president is standing

with his naval aide cap and mccray and general john jae perching and the president will get in the car with his aides and military leaders of the nation and drive over to the amphitheater, which is just beyond the unknown soldiers' tomb. And at that point, the ceremony will continue with an address of welcome by Major Joseph J. Malloy of the United States Army,

National Chairman of the American Legion, Armistice Day Committee. We take you now to the amphitheater. Speaking from the amphitheater in Arlington National Cemetery, the National Memorial Park war dead and dead of other wards. The ceremony will begin here in a few moments with the arrival of the President of the United States and his aides upon the podium above the crowd that's

assembled here in this gorgeous amphitheater of white marble. The amphitheater, standing for some distance the ground is surrounding it over the surrounding Arlington National Cemetery, set in the midst of natural beauty of extreme beauty, just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., the nation's capital.