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How local groups are marking 100th anniversary of end of World War I

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World War I soldiers in a photograph in the Northeast Georgia History Center collection.

11112018 WORLDWAR 7.jpg — World War I soldiers in a photograph in the Northeast Georgia History Center collection.

The first sentence in the Nov. 13, 1918, article in the local newspaper, the Gainesville News, read simply, “The war is over.” And so it was 100 years ago today.