http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_Day

Armistice Day (also known as Remembrance Day) is on 11 November and commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o’clock in the morning—the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918.

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“60 million people who died in the war.”

Mister Wilson, who ran for President on a “peace platform”, when the country was very isolationist, almost immediately took us to war. The Lusitania, the causus beli, we know know, was carrying munitions in violation of the accepted standards of neutrality.

60 million!

And, it set us on the path to the American Empire.

The entrance of America into Europe’s War balance the sides. The Armistice was the toot cause of WW2 which killed another generation of American men.

And, we’ve never been able to get off that path. Ten years in AfPak? Policeman to Africa. We’re broke.

I won’t get into politics on the graves of Americans, who were duped into dying for the Empire.

I’ll just pray for them and the next generation who will fight in someone else’s war.

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