BISMARCK, N.D. – Gov. Doug Burgum on Friday will sign a proclamation declaring Nov. 11 as World War I Remembrance Day and encouraging North Dakotans to ring bells in remembrance of those who served in The Great War.
The signing ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. Nov. 2, in Memorial Hall at the Capitol. Veterans and members of North Dakota’s World War I Centennial Committee are among those expected to attend.
The proclamation will encourage North Dakotans to toll bells at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11 to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War I. It also will encourage county veterans service officers to read aloud the names of those from their counties who died in World War I, from the steps of their county courthouses after the bells have tolled 21 times.
More than 1,400 North Dakotans were among the more than 116,000 Americans who gave their lives in World War I. A total of 4.7 million American men and women served during WWI, including more than 28,000 from North Dakota.