OMNI
ARMISTICE
DAY/ WORLD UNITY DAY NEWSLETTER (Reclaiming “Veterans Day”)
NOVEMBER
11, 2019, 101st Anniversary
WE, THE
PEOPLE BUILDING A CULTURE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE FOR THE PLANET.
Compiled by
Dick Bennett
(revised 11-12-19)
What’s
at Stake: Armistice Day celebrated the
end of a horrendous slaughter and the renewal of peace. The US government (the Democratic/Republican
War Party) changed the Day to celebrate preparation for war. Speak
out for the restoration of Armistice Day. (And call the Pentagon what it is: the War
Department.)
See
OMNI’s newsletters on US Armed Forces Day, US Military Industrial Complex
(MIC), Arkansas MIC, many more related
Table of Contents: Armistice
Day Newsletter #13, November 11, 2019, 101st ANNIVERSARY
NADG Reporting the End of
WWI Leading Not to Peace but as Veterans Day preparing for the next war, from
Nov. 8 to Nov. 12.
Let’s
Celebrate Peace Not War
Veterans
for Peace
World
Beyond War, David Swanson
The
Humanist
Calendar of Peace
Activities
Two Books offering an
alternative history.
Docherty and MacGregor,
Hidden History: the Secret Origins of the
First World War.
Jack Beatty, The Lost History of 1914.
Other US Wars.
Kurt Vonnegut on
Armistice Day.
Buy an Armistice Day
shirt.
Read OMNI’s newsletters
on WWI and other US Wars.
TEXTS
Veterans Day
Here’s how UA’s Arkansas Alums celebrated
Armistice Day as Veterans Day in 2018:
University of Arkansas
NEWS, Monday, November 12, 2018
For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Arkansas Alumni Association Salutes Veterans
Nov. 12, 2018 In honor of Veterans Day, the Bill and JoElla Toller Celebration Bell at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House will peal for 11 minutes at 11 a.m. today, Nov. 12. The Arkansas Alumni Association salutes all veterans and those who are currently serving our country in all branches of the U.S. military. CONTACT
Debbie Blume, board and campaign coordinator
Arkansas Alumni Association
479-575-6476, dblume@uark.edu
For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Arkansas Alumni Association Salutes Veterans
Nov. 12, 2018 In honor of Veterans Day, the Bill and JoElla Toller Celebration Bell at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House will peal for 11 minutes at 11 a.m. today, Nov. 12. The Arkansas Alumni Association salutes all veterans and those who are currently serving our country in all branches of the U.S. military. CONTACT
Debbie Blume, board and campaign coordinator
Arkansas Alumni Association
479-575-6476, dblume@uark.edu
And here’s 2019
You're
invited to Veterans Day Celebration on Nov.11
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We
are confronted by militarism/war (Go Razorback red) and by warming, and
we must SAY NO to both. That’s easy at UAF, because its motto is Veritate Duce Progredi: To Advance with
Truth as Our Leader. There (the
university not the AAA) we can learn to
question myths and propaganda, and the glorification of wars and
warriors. But in practice some of UAF’s central activities promote the values of
militarism (ROTC, football, research for the Pentagon).
Throughout Arkansas, let’s make Veritate Duce Progredi our motto,
despite the war propaganda from the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette.
NADG (11-8-19)
p. 1B. 2 color photos: “Honoring Veterans.”
First, UAAF ROTC, one cadet holding flag, another a
rifle, part of Honor Guard at Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks in
Fayetteville.
2nd, The Helen Tyson Middle School All Girls’ Choir wave flags …representing the branches of the armed forces during a patriotic song.”
2nd, The Helen Tyson Middle School All Girls’ Choir wave flags …representing the branches of the armed forces during a patriotic song.”
NADG (11-9-19), an increase of war promotion:
p. 7B
3 LTE support Veterans Day without a hint of historical context.
p. 8B
Two color photos, one of the Fort Chaffee color guard at the Tyson School
of Innovation in Springdale, the other, same location, of musicians performing
“Traveling Soldier.”
What is this with Tyson schools?
NADG (11-10-19)
5A Full-page ad for Legends: Resort & Casino
Arkansas: “Home of the Free, Because of the Brave.” THANK YOU. To all the men and women who put our country first, we salute
you….” (Legends is operated by the
Cherokee Nation, whose leaders haven’t studied the genocidal history of the
indigenous people under US (white European) westward conquest, and therefore don’t
know what putting “our country first” has meant to NA indigenous peoples. They should read for a starter, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United
States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)
6A Photo of WWII reenactors as they marched in the Veterans Day parade in Erie, Pa. (I suppose the NADG wanted to assure readers the war making is national not just
Arkansas.)
3B
Two photos titled “Vet Parade,” the first showing a vet from Cave
Springs unfurling a flag on the back
of his motorcycle before the start of a Veterans Day parade by Pig Trail Harley-Davidson. The 2nd photo shows a long line of
the motorcycles on College Avenue.
3H
3 LTE praising veterans,
individually or indiscriminately, as invited by the NADG.
T7 Ad from the
Village Inn restaurant in Fayetteville and Bentonville: “Proud to Serve Those
who Serve This Veterans Day. FREE V.I.B.
To All Veterans and Active Military.”
See my several newsletters on “service.” (#1 June 1, 2015 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2015/06/service-newsletter-1.html
; #2, July 30, 2015 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2015/07/service-newsletter-2-what-service-were.html
; #3, Dec. 4, 2015; http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2015/12/service-newsletter-3-what-service-were.html;
#4, http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2016/02/service-how-did-you-serve.html)
(I did not look at
every page , but I expect there’s more in today’s Sunday paper.)
NADG (11-11-19)
6A Full page Veterans Day ad sponsored by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, featuring a
large eagle head and the large caption “Courage,” and “Veterans Day: November
11, 2019, Thank You!, Honoring all who have served and are serving.”
1B Stacy Ryburn, “Groups help homeless vets”
4B
Two large photos (nearly half page total) of military speakers at the Stand
with a Soldier: Honor our Veterans event, a “patriotic program and free concert
for veterans” at the Fayetteville Town Center
6B Half page ADG Editorial: “Veterans Day 2019:
When it’s time to salute our neighbors”
6B
Cartoon of veterans with many “Thank Yous”
6B
Letter to editor titled “Shame on critics of decorated soldier”
7B
Guest editorial by Boyd Ward: “His last mission: an uncle never came home”
7B
LTE “Greatest generation”
7B
LTE “Important distinction”
7B
LTE “War weighed heavily”
7B
LTE “The hero next door”
7B
LTE “Respond with respect”
NADG
(11-12-19)
1A (AP).
“Students Honor Veterans.” Photo
of mother and son celebrating grandfather veteran at “We Honor You” program at
Thurman Smith Elementary School in Springdale.
A3 “President Honors Veterans at Tribute.” “Trump told the crowd [in NYC] that the
nation’s veterans often came face to face with evil and did not back down.”
1B Photo of VNW vet being hugged by
third-graders at Cooper Elementary in Bella Vista.
1B
& 5B. Dave Perozek. “College Pays Tribute to Veterans.” Article about guest military speaker’s speech
on problems vets face back home, meaning of “warrior,” etc. Accompanied by photo of speaker, Lt. Col. Timothy
Rose. Article mentions the “estimated 20
million military veterans” in the US, “representing about 10% of the total U.S.
adult population.” [One major explanation
of the increasing militarization of our country. –D]]
1B
& 4B. Doug Thompson. “Sanders Praises Veterans at Event. 600 Attend GOP fundraiser in Rogers.” “’In a world full of really bad guys, [US
vets] are the really good guys,’ [Sarah] Sanders said.” [A perfect example of the US delusion of US
exceptionalism.]
2B. Frank Lockwood. “Arkansas Bugler Honored to Carry on Mournful
Tradition.” Biographical details of the
bugler from Jonesboro (his dad and granddad were in the military), history of
the melody (“played thousands of times each year” at Arlington), etc. half a
page.
Summary: For five days the NADG lauded war making and warriors without a sentence invoking the
UofA’s motto, Veritate Duce Progredi,
to
examine the justification of those wars or the “service” of all those millions
of warriors. Similarly, our Arkansas Educational Television
Network (AETN), presented a series of pro-war or pro-vets documentaries, too
many to list, but check your November Magazine (Nov. 2, “We’ll Meet Again: ‘Saved
in Vietnam’” . . . . “Warrior Tradition” (Nov. 12). The latter is a glorification of the warrior Comanche-Kiowa
tradition.
OMNI
is a voice of the international peace movement.
Why? For a citizen of the United
States, the best reason is that hardly any of its wars is justifiable, was
necessary. OMNI’s numerous newsletters
assemble the evidence, and this newsletter is its latest contribution. Perhaps WWII in Europe is the closest to being
justifiable. Study it. WORLD WAR II—THE “GOOD WAR”?—NEWSLETTER
#2, December 4, 2018.
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Hidden History : the Secret Origins of the First World War . Gerry Docherty and Jim MacGregor. Edinburgh Mainstream, 2013. 463
pages. Illustrated edition.
- Exposes those responsible for the First World
War. This book reveals how accounts of the war's origins have been
deliberately falsified to conceal the guilt of the secret cabal of rich
and powerful men in London responsible for the heinous crime perpetrated
on humanity.
- The history of the First World War is a
deliberately concocted lie. Not the sacrifice, the heroism, the horrendous
waste of life or the misery that followed. No, these were very real, but
the truth of how it all began and how it was unnecessarily and
deliberately prolonged beyond I9I5 has been successfully covered up for a
century. Hidden History uniquely exposes those responsible, revealing how
accounts of the war's origins have been deliberately falsified to conceal
the guilt of the secret cabal of very rich and powerful men in London
responsible for one of the most heinous crimes perpetrated on humanity.
For ten years, they plotted the destruction of Germany as the first stage
of their plan to take control of the world. The assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand was no chance happening--it lit a fuse that had been
carefully set through a chain of command stretching from Sarajevo through
Belgrade and St. Petersburg to that cabal in London. Our understanding of
these events has been firmly trapped in a web of falsehood and duplicity
carefully constructed by the victors at Versailles in 1919 and maintained
by compliant historians ever since. The official version is fatally
flawed, warped by the volume of evidence they destroyed or concealed from
public view. Hidden History poses a tantalizing challenge. The authors ask
only that you examine the evidence they lay before you.--Adapted from book
jacket.
Contents
- Machine generated contents note:
ch. 1 The Secret Society
- ch. 2 South Africa
- - Disregard the Screamers
- ch. 3 The Edward Conspiracy
- - First Steps and New Beginnings
- ch. 4 Testing Warmer Waters
- ch. 5 Taming the Bear
- ch. 6 The Changing of the Guard
- ch. 7 1906
- - Landslide to Continuity
- ch. 8 Alexander Isvolsky
- - Hero and Villain
- ch. 9 Scams and Scandals
- ch. 10 Creating the Fear
- ch. 11 Preparing the Empire
- 60 More...
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- ch. 4 Testing Warmer Waters
- ch. 5 Taming the Bear
- ch. 6 The Changing of the Guard
- ch. 7 1906
- - Landslide to Continuity
- ch. 8 Alexander Isvolsky
- - Hero and Villain
- ch. 9 Scams and Scandals
- ch. 10 Creating the Fear
- ch. 11 Preparing the Empire
- 60 More...
Rev. in The War
Crimes Times (Fall 2014) (Veterans for Peace).
Tom Cahill. “Historians and Journalists on Trial.” P. 12. “The true cause of the ‘Great War’ revealed. The authors
have challenged the historians and journalists who have whored themselves to
the financiers, politicians, industrialists, and military brass hats and their
camp followers who have forever profited from the misfortune of others.”
“If
you read only one book on World War I, read Jack Beatty’s The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began.“
In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty offers
a highly original view of World War I, testing against fresh
evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable.
Other
US wars falsely defended or glorified:
World War II, read
Ted Grimsrud’s The Good War That Wasn’t —
And Why It Matters: World War II’s Moral Legacy.
Vietnam War, read
Nick Turse’s Kill Anything that Moves:
The Real American War in Vietnam.
On the morality of
just war theory, read Robert Meagher’s Killing
from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War. I
See my newsletters on individual US
wars and US militarism and imperialism.
VFPStore: You Can Still
Get an Armistice Day T-Shirt!
Armistice Day Shirts never go out of style! We still
have some left this year, in white or grey! Make sure to get them before
this special 100 Year Anniversary t-shirt is out of stock! Buy Now!
Read Veterans For
Peace’s special newspaper for 2018, the Armistice’s 100th Anniv.
Read OMNI’s 2018
Newsletter: https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2018/11/omni-armistice-day-newsletter-2018.html
END of 2019 ARMISTICE DAY NEWSLETTER (Reclaiming
“Veterans Day”), November 11, 2019.
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