A very stirring monument. That is as it should be remembered. I always wondered why they stopped selling poppies here in the USA for Armistice Day. In fact I have wondered why they changed it to Veterans'Day. It is right to memorialize the end of a horrible war.
It's our local monument. I've always thought it was particularly striking.
We mainly call it Remembrance Day- which covers all the bases. It belongs to the veterans, but also to the families of those who didn't come home- and to the dead themselves.
Of course the American experience of WWI is rather different from that of the European nations. You came in right at the end and scored a series of victories. For you it was a good "war"- and not particularly costly. Your "bad" wars are the Civil War and Vietnam.
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Date: 2008-11-11 04:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-11 10:53 pm (UTC)That is as it should be remembered. I always wondered why they stopped selling poppies here in the USA for Armistice Day. In fact I have wondered why they changed it to Veterans'Day. It is right to memorialize the end of a horrible war.
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Date: 2008-11-12 10:34 am (UTC)We mainly call it Remembrance Day- which covers all the bases. It belongs to the veterans, but also to the families of those who didn't come home- and to the dead themselves.
Of course the American experience of WWI is rather different from that of the European nations. You came in right at the end and scored a series of victories. For you it was a good "war"- and not particularly costly. Your "bad" wars are the Civil War and Vietnam.
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Date: 2008-11-13 03:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-13 04:50 pm (UTC)