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Nov. 11th, 2014 10:35 amIt's Armistice Day.
Let's all stop BS'ing ourselves, that's what it is. We may now use it to celebrate veterans, or all the war dead of the 20th century; but there's a reason why it's today, out of all possible days; and that's because it was 96 years (and six hours) ago that the guns stopped firing.
And in Britain, everything still stops, at eleven o'clock, in the midst of an ordinary day, to remember...well, in some ways I think cracked.com actually got it right: the point where Europe lost its World War virginity.* ( Read more... )
Let's all stop BS'ing ourselves, that's what it is. We may now use it to celebrate veterans, or all the war dead of the 20th century; but there's a reason why it's today, out of all possible days; and that's because it was 96 years (and six hours) ago that the guns stopped firing.
And in Britain, everything still stops, at eleven o'clock, in the midst of an ordinary day, to remember...well, in some ways I think cracked.com actually got it right: the point where Europe lost its World War virginity.* ( Read more... )
