Happy Armistice Day, everyone. As Kurt Vonnegut put it so well:
“…November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy all the people of all 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.”
When we honor those who have sacrificed so much, let’s not forget to celebrate a peace so dearly won and the hope that inspires.