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Veterans Day moment of silence finally observed after 12 years of effort
2 monthes ago | By Boston Herald
It is perhaps the nature of silence that it often goes unnoticed, and so it was this year when, for the first time since a 2016 law was signed requiring presidents to do so, all Americans were called to observe two minutes of silence in honor of the nation's veterans.
Those two minutes come about following the efforts of at least three congressmen and twelve years of lobbying by the family of Dr. Peter Bendetson, a Brookline dermatologist, to make it the law that the President calls for a moment of silence each November 11.
The idea started with a vacation, part of an ongoing family...
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