47. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, November 10, 2021
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Armistice Day History and Remembrance
OMNI Armistice Day Newsletter
ARMISTICE DAY 11-11-21: History, Meaning, Remembrance: Scarves and Poppies,
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The Past and Future of Armistice / Remembrance Day: A
Global Webinar [Full text
see #46. –D]
What the Day
Means and Where It Came From
November 11,
2021, is Remembrance /Armistice Day 104 — which is 103
years since World War I was ended at the scheduled moment of 11 o’clock
on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 (killing an extra 11,000
people 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.
For decades in the United States, as
elsewhere, this day was called Armistice Day, and was identified as a
holiday of peace, including by the U.S. government. It was a day of sad
remembrance and joyful ending of war, and of a commitment to preventing
war in the future. The holiday’s name was changed in the United States
after the U.S. war on Korea to “Veterans Day,” a largely pro-war
holiday on which some U.S. cities forbid Veterans For Peace groups from
marching in their parades, because the day has become understood as a
day to praise war — in contrast to how it began.
We seek to make Armistice / Remembrance
Day a day to mourn all victims of war and advocate for the ending of
all war.
White Poppies and Sky Blue Scarves
White poppies
represent remembrance for all victims of war (including the vast
majority of war victims who are civilians), a commitment to peace, and
a challenge to attempts to glamorize or celebrate war. Make your own or
get them here in the UK and here in Canada.
Sky blue scarves were first worn by peace activists in Afghanistan.
They represent our collective wish as a human family to live without
wars, to share our resources, and to take care of our earth under the
same blue sky. Make your own or get them here.
Much more about Remembrance
Day / Armistice Day here.
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OMNI Newsletter
RESTORING ARMISTICE DAY/ WORLD UNITY DAY NEWSLETTER #14
NOVEMBER 11, 2020, 102nd Anniversary
WE, THE PEOPLE BUILDING A CULTURE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE FOR THE
PLANET.
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/11/armistice-day-novemer-11-2020.html
Compiled by Dick Bennett
www.omnicenter.org/donate/
See OMNI’s newsletters on US Culture of War, US Armed
Forces Day, US Military Industrial Complex (MIC), Arkansas MIC, many more.
Table of Contents OMNI Armistice Day Newsletter
#14, November
11, 2020, 102nd ANNIVERSARY
Vonnegut on Armistice Day
Veterans for Peace
Reclaim Armistice Day
2018-19
World Beyond War: Remembrance Day to Mourn the Dead
and Abolish War
Media
Abel Tomlinson
Janine Jackson
Newsletter #13 Contents
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