Tuesday 11 November 2014

Kurt Vonnegut on Veteran’s Day.

Via on Nov 11, 2013
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Originally, this Day was a day to honor our universal wish for peace, and to remember the horrors of war. Now, this day is about sales and honoring war, and warriors. Let us remember that true warriors hate war, and love peace, and let us honor warriors by bowing our heads in silence as we remember that all beings on this Earth are one family. ~ ed.
Kurt Vonnegut put it better:
I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things. — Breakfast of Champions



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