Remembrance Day / Armistice Day seems to have been made into a day for falsely remembering wars as glorious and noble things

November 11, 2024, is Remembrance /Armistice Day 107 — which is 106 years since World War I was ended in Europe (while it continued for weeks in Africa). 

WWI was ended in Europe at the scheduled moment of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 (with an extra 11,000 people dead, wounded, or missing after the decision to end the war had been reached early in the morning — we might add “for no reason,” except that it would imply the rest of the war was for some reason).

In many parts of the world, principally but not exclusively in British Commonwealth nations, this day is called Remembrance Day and should be a day of mourning the dead and working to abolish war so as not to create any more war dead. But the day is being militarized, and a strange alchemy cooked up by the weapons companies is using the day to tell people that unless they support killing more men, women, and children in war they will dishonor those already killed.

We seek to make Armistice / Remembrance Day a day to mourn all victims of war and advocate for the ending of all war.

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