TOMS RIVER – On Armistice Day, the bell will ring from the Ocean County Courthouse front lawn 75 times to remember all those who paid the ultimate price serving in World War I.
It’s a fitting close to the county’s more than year-long remembrance of the 100th anniversary of World War I.
Fun fact: 2/3 of those 75 died of the Spanish Flu 1918-1919 while overseas rather than from combat during the war. Throughout history disease and environmental conditions have killed far more soldiers than enemy weapons.