The Doughboy Foundation:Announcing Bells of Peace 2022

 

Bells of Peace is entering its fifth year. Please join us and toll the bells in 2022 to honor those who serve and served.

View as a webpage Announcing Bells of Peace 2022 Toll the Bells to honor all those who have served and sacrificed Bells of Peace is a U.S. national "bell tolling" created in collaboration with the Society of the Honor Guard, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (SHGTUS) in 2018 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the World War I Armistice. The Doughboy Foundation has since promoted it as an annual remembrance of those who served in WWI and the11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, when the guns fell silent, and bells tolled on the Western Front in 1918. Sign Up Register your 2022 participation as an individual or as an organization and join the tens of thousands who have tolled the bells in the name of liberty and freedom. When you sign up you can add your organization's logo to the National Participants Wall (going back to 2018). No bell? No Problem! Download the Bells of Peace Participation App and get a countdown timer to 11/11 @11am local. Select from various bell sounds that toll 21 times, 5 seconds apart from your smartphone at the right time. Get others in your group to do the same, all selecting different sounds with the phone clocks synchronizing the tolling. If you don't use social media, you can still share your plans and your event through the App using the phone to take pictures or make videos, and it will also be included on the National Participants Wall. Join us at the WWI Memorial in Washington D.C. in person, or online at 10:30am Eastern The Doughboy Foundation will be hosting a Bells of Peace commemoration at the National WWI Memorial in Washington, D.C. starting at 10:30am Eastern on November 11, 2022.  The ceremony will include a wreath dedication, remarks by special guest General Barry McCaffrey, the Bells of Peace tolling, and "Echoing Taps" by Taps For Veterans, when multiple buglers will play taps from different corners of the WWI Memorial.  If you are in DC, we invite you to join us live at the Memorial, located at Pennsylvania Avenue between 14th Street and 15th Street NW, across from the White House Visitor Center. If you are not local, tune in to our LIVE STREAM on the Doughboy Foundation YouTube channel at YouTube.Com/c/TheDoughboyFoundation or on the home page of Bells of Peace site. Questions? Get the overview on the About page or dig into the details on the Info and FAQs page. Contact: BellsOfPeace@doughboy.org bellsofpeace.org

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The Doughboy Foundation is a 501c3 non-profit funded by philanthropic contributions. Our mission is to keep the story of WWI in the minds of all Americans, so that the 4.7 million who served in the Armed Forces, and how WWI changed America, will never be forgotten.