11/11

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In Canada, the eleventh of November is called Remembrance Day. In the US, it's Veterans' Day. It used to be called (and still is, in some countries) Armistice Day.

Eighty-four years ago, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the armistice was signed that quieted the guns of the Great War. The more optimistic hoped that the war had been so horrible that there would be no more.

They were, of course, wrong, and horribly so.

So today, honor those who served their country. Pick up a phone, call a veteran, let them know that you are thinking of them this day.

That's what I did.

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thanks for putting canada first ;) it's an official holiday for us as well.

i know no veterans...but i went to a service where some were in attendance. i take my freedom very seriously.

I bought myself a Poppy here in Oz on Rememberance Day and thought about my Grandfather going to war against the Russians when he was just a boy in Finland. How terrifying it must have been...
War is hell people. Surely we have evolved beyond that?

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