Dakota Datebook: Victory Sing in Grand Forks

World War I was the most devastating war in human history at the time it was fought from 1914 to 1918. The Armistice that ended the conflict on November 1, 1918, came as a great relief to the nations at war.

For J. Myron Bacon, a pilot from Grand Forks, word that “the armistice had been signed and we didn’t have to go” on patrol. He said, it brought “some joyous shouts . . . and everyon...