It’s a grotesque, ceremonial observance, marked by a degree of unpardonable acceptance. The First World War, which killed millions, extirpated classes in Europe, and destroyed monarchies, established a mawkish ritual that serves to continue, rather than prevent war. The more one grieves for the slaughtered and the brain frozen folly, the more one hopes for […]
My title comes from a song sung by soldiers as they marched to hell in the trenches of World War I and the same song my sisters and I sang in the car as our parents drove us to our summer vacation in paradise at Edgewater Farm. I think of this as we march to […]
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the bells ring out again this time the eleventh hour the eleventh day the eleventh month their tolling symbolizes a temporary pause in large scale inhumane events smaller scale atrocities may continue as needed warmongers the great war didn’t change ‘em the holocaust didn’t change ‘em world war II didn’t change ‘em the wars in […]
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I’m rushing this since it is officially, November 11, the dreaded day of dishonor we call Veterans Day. Parades, ceremonies, and a fake day off—Veterans Day, observed on November 11 each year, is one of the country’s 12 Congressionally designated federal holidays. Make now bones about it — this holiday is distinct from Memorial Day: […]
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Philip Roddis And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day. Shakespeare – Henry V, Act IV, scene iii Today marks the hundred and third anniversary of the ending of World War One. That …
The Roman poet Horace famously declared: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. Wilfred Owen, the great English poet of the First World War, described this phrase as ‘the old Lie’ in his famous war poem, ‘Dulce et decorum est’. Patriotism so often means ‘honouring’ […]
Today is Armistice Day – the day that World War I, a brutal and devastating war, ended. After World War I, people hoped nothing like that would ever happen again and a large peace movement developed in the United States. Sadly, just over two decades later, World War II began.
The US arose in the aftermath of this second terrible war as the global power. In 1954, Armistice Day was changed to Veterans Day to celebrate all veterans. Now, veterans are pushing to change it back to Armistice Day and to celebrate those who work for peace and justice, not war.
(ANTIWAR.COM) — President Trump’s intention to hold a massive military parade at some point in 2018 seems to have gotten some real details Friday, with the White House having issued a memo directing the Pentagon to prepare the parade for November 11. November 11 is Veterans Day in the US, but also Armistice Day, traditionally an antiwar holiday […]
Current members of the forces are now given at least equal, if not more prominent attention, by the Royal British Legion on the web. The Legion clearly has a political position of encouraging support for the British armed forces as an institution, and by implication supporting war as a means of addressing conflict and celebrating military values such as unquestioning obedience.
Veterans Day is a holiday whose current meaning is somewhat different than its creators’ original intentions.
