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Honor Armistice Day

This weekend the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 100 years ago 1918.

A whole generation was butchered and damned because they were told those other people were their enemies.

BufftonBeotch 8 Nov 9
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Wow, that video gave me chills. Is there ever a good reason for war?

Those who declare it should have to go and send their children and grandchildren.

That might fix it a bit.

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Another poignant song: 'Remembrance Day' by B Movie.

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I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.

Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not.

So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things.

What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.

And all music is.

-Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions-

And then the fever epidemics an entire generation nearly beaten and torn.

And then Polio on their children

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