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[HarmanKardon]

Beware the Ides of March, but not in November.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

Beware the Ides of March, but not in November.

November 11th is when we in America celebrate Veterans' Day, celebrating the people who fought but, in other countries, November 11th is Armistice Day, a celebration marking the end of a war.

[HarmanKardon]

"War" is German and means "was".

DNU

Thank you for the info on this very important memorial day. A lot of them lost their lives so that we can live in freedom and democracy. May they all rest in peace.

DNU

[donquixote99]

War, a of end marking celebration, a Day Armistice 11th November.

/DNU Thought I would take the 'plastic word order' employed here all the way! /DNU

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

DNU

Thank you for the info on this very important memorial day. A lot of them lost their lives so that we can live in freedom and democracy. May they all rest in peace.

DNU

DNU

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We already have a holiday for that here in America. It's called Memorial Day. Veterans Day is something different.

The thing I find disturbing about this is that, in America, we took a day dedicated to the celebration of peace (we used to celebrate Armistice Day here too) and changed it into a day for, in many ways, celebrating war. This strikes me as a profound and perhaps deliberate perversion of the day.

It's important to remember that November 11th, the day on which we celebrate, is the day that the armistice ending World War I was implemented. All hostilities ceased at the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, a symbolic recognition of the scale of the calamity suffered by all sides to the conflict and the necessity for stepping back from the brink of unending chaos.

It should not be an occasion for "honoring sacrifice" but for recognizing the tragedy and ultimate futility of war, a futility that World War I exemplifies better than any other war.

(Sermon OFF)

DNU

[Rajoo]

November is when we fall back in time so that we can spring forward in Spring.

[HarmanKardon]

DNU

Thank you Boreas for that one.

But now we have to carry on with the last word "was".

#773

DNU

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by HarmanKardon

DNU

Thank you Boreas for that one.

But now we have to carry on with the last word "was".

#773

DNU

DNU My computer shows a time stamp of 7:58 for your Post #773 and 8:01 for DQ's post #774. So the three minute rule applies and Post #774 is the last? DNU

[HarmanKardon]

DNU

Absolutely correct. My bad. Mea maxima culpa.

DNU

[HarmanKardon]

Spring is here in November, and the blackbirds are singing in our garden.