The guns fell silent at 11AM local time, or about the time this post goes live, on November 11th, 1918. The Armistice had been agreed to about six hours before it went into efect. About three thousand men died between the agreement to stop fighting and the cessation of hostilities. In a war marked by extreme callousness to the wastage of human life on both sides, those deaths may have been the most futile.
Armistice Day was first marked a year later. The Brits later renamed it Rememberance Day. It is still Armistice Day in France. For the Americans, Armistice Day became Veterans Day in 1954. For about eight years, in the 1970s, Veterans Day was jerked around to always be on the fourth Monday in October. But sanity finally prevailed and the day was restored to its intended day: November 11th.
This is the day to honor all those who have served in the Armed Forces.
If you have served, thank you. If a close family member served, thank you for supporting their service.
Please take a moment to remember those who have served.
And, if you wouldn't mind, please do not patronize an establishment that is running a "Veterans Day Sale". Fuck all of those assholes who seek to make a buck off the holiday.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
Both of my grandfathers were in that debacle, and both of them served honorably. A consequence of how the peace was conducted was the rise of Nazi Germany...
Don't thank me, I'm not proud of what I did.
It glorifies War ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlKazFeT8hI
-Doug in Sugar Pine
It's fun to remember Trump chickening out on giving a speech for the 100th anniversary because he didn't want his hair to get wet.
But to think what a speech Obama could have given. He would have given a speech worthy of the moment, that would still be quoted in a hundred years.
Post a Comment