Armistice Day

[greygirlbeast]

The Vonnegut quote I referred to was posted by grandmofhelsing and matociquala, and it was also nice to see an Armistice nod from nineweaving. Anyway, in case you've not read it, and wondered what I was on about, here's the quote:

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, all

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[delirium23]

I read that book in high school, and for almost 30 years I've remembered that quote every year on this day.

For 22 of those years, I've been a veteran. I still agree with Vonnegut. "Veterans' Day" is about as useful and sincere as a magnetic ribbon, especially since a certain airshow went down around the turn of the century.

If we wanted to honor veterans, especially dead, wounded and disabled veterans, we'd arrange to stop making more dead, wounded and disabled veterans instead of just thanking them for getting that way.

[mb2u]

There are times when Vonnegut is just a genius. And others when he's a fraking genius. This falls into the latter...