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Today is Veterans Day.
It was originally established as Armistice Day 125 years ago by then President Woodrow Wilson so as to acknowledge the end of a war that was then viewed as the war to end all wars ended on the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of November in 1918.
Tragically, the end of a war that was the most horrific war to that point in history ended up named World War I and World War II proved to be even worse.
In turn, over time in the United States Armistice Day thus morphed into Veterans Day and so honoring all who have served whereas many European combatants in World War I continue to go with Remembrance Day or something similar in their respective language and so focus on remembering that war is Hell on Earth.
Regardless of these honorable differences, there are those who try to gain from working war as opposing to the only proper viewing of today as a teachable moment about how all too often bumbling leaders end up stumbling into needless wars and all of the carnage that comes from the errors of their ways.
After all, what better way to honor those who served and so experienced the loss of friends who were comrades in arms as opposed to suffering flowery hagiography, especially by those who never served?
The British WWII veterans I knew were sickened by this sort of thing. American ones too. https://t.co/vfTrXSuyaj
— Justin Sherin (@wychstreet) November 10, 2024
