ARMISTICE
DAY 2022
OMNI
ARMISTICE DAY
ANTHOLOGY
NOVEMBER
11, 2022, 104TH Anniversary
WE, THE
PEOPLE BUILDING A CULTURE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE FOR THE PLANET.
Compiled by
Dick Bennett
www.omnicenter.org/donate/
What’s at stake: The
erasure of Armistice Day, renaming it Veterans Day, by the militarists,
tragically trumpeted our country’s history of militarism and aggression. H. Patricia Hynes, Nov 11,
2021. But we can restore its original
purpose and proper title. Honor Armistice Day on November 11th as a Day of Peace. Create or Join a demonstration. Fly the UN flag. Celebrate stopping wars: Stop the Ukraine
War! Stop the Cold War of hating commie
Russkies that began in 1918.
CONTENTS
ARMISTICE
DAY ANTHOLOGY, NOVEMBER 11, 2022, 104TH
Anniversary
VFP Reclaims
Armistice Day
World Beyond War Actions for Peace on Armistice Day
Tom
Dispatch Presents Kelly Denton-Borhaug, “What an American
Addiction to War Means to Veterans.”
Google Search 11-11-22
CONTENTS ARMISTICE DAY 2021
ANTHOLOGY
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VFP
eNews: October 24, 2022
#ReclaimArmisticeDay,
Golden Rule Great Loop Voyage Update, WIRN Webinar, Crossings Documentary
Screenings, 2022 Elections, and more!
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Armistice
Day 2022 is fast approaching! 10-24-22
Join Veterans For Peace as we once again take the lead to #ReclaimArmisticeDay and
lift up November 11th as a day for peace.
Veterans For Peace has been celebrating Armistice Day
almost since the organization's inception, with a few chapters doing
yearly events. Since 2008 (view the official
resolution) it has been a VFP national effort. Each year,
chapters across the country "Reclaim Armistice Day" by
pushing the celebration of peace into the national conversation
on Veterans Day.
We are asking VFP members to do what they can to keep
the conversation going around peace and Armistice Day. As
veterans we know that a day that celebrates peace, not war, is the
best way to honor the sacrifices of veterans. We want generations
after us to never know the destruction war has wrought on people and
the earth.
Let us know what you have
planned by filling out this form! Chapter
actions will be listed on our Armistice Day webpage,
so check back periodically to see if there is an event near you. Let's #ReclaimArmisticeDay! View Full Armistice Day Webpage
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World BEYOND War
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At 11:00
on 11/11 do something for peace
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1:02 PM (1 hour ago)
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to me
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oin our webinar on
war and climate, November 9th with Dr. Elizabeth G. Boulton,
Tristan Sykes, and David Swanson, with Liz
Remmerswaal Hughes moderating. RSVP here.
And on November
11th, find or create an event
here.
November 11, 2022,
is Remembrance /Armistice Day 105 — which is 104 years
since World War I was ended in Europe (while it continued for
weeks in Africa) at the scheduled moment of 11 o’clock on 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.
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 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.
Take This Opportunity to Speak Up for Peace
Find resources here.World BEYOND War is
a global
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TOM DISPATCH PRESENTS KELLY DENTON-BORHAUG
Kelly Denton-Borhaug, What an
American Addiction to War Means to Veterans
November 10, 2022
I felt it then. I feel far more certain of it now. My dad, who
died in 1983, was a member of what came to be known as the Greatest
Generation, those who served in World War II. In fact, he volunteered
the day after Pearl Harbor (though he was then old enough that he might not
have been drafted) and ended up in the U.S. Army Air Corps -- there was no
separate Air Force in those days -- with the First Air Commandos fighting
the Japanese in Burma.
And here was the strange thing: though he had souvenirs of
that war in his closet, including an old mess kit, a duffle bag filled with
papers, his major's hat, and various wartime badges, and as a boy I was
fascinated, he would never really talk about his time at war. The only
exceptions were those sudden outbursts of anger because my mother had
shopped at a nearby grocery store whose owners, he claimed, had been war
profiteers, or later because I had gone to a Japanese restaurant or bought
a German car (a Volkswagen). Mind you, I thought I knew all there was to
know about his war experience because he used to take me to the war movies of
the 1950s where we both watched Americans ever triumphant, ever satisfied,
ever glorious -- and he never said a word about them, which seemed to
validate everything I saw on screen.
Now, I suspect he had returned from that war with some version
of post-traumatic stress disorder, some disturbance deep inside that came
out in indirect but harsh ways in the tough years (for him) of the
1950s. But who talked about such things then? No one in my
world, that's for sure. And that was "the good war" (as
Studs Terkel labeled it, quote marks included, in his famed oral history of World War II).
When it comes to America's bad wars of the last century and
this one, however, we know a good deal more about what they've done to this
country's "warriors," as TomDispatch regular, religion scholar, and author
of And Then Your Soul is Gone:
Moral Injury and U.S. War-Culture Kelly Denton-Borhaug
makes all too clear today. Yes, in these years, Americans were in a rush to
"thank" those
who fought our distant wars, while life here went on almost as if they
weren't happening. But now we know that the price paid for the
disasters in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere was far, far too high (even
if you ignore the costs borne by
Afghans, Iraqis, and so many others). With that in mind, as Veterans Day comes around once more,
take a moment with Denton-Borhaug to consider the price our vets
have paid for the
decision to fight the Global War on Terror across significant parts of this
planet forever and a day.m
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The
Intolerable Price You Pay: A Civilian Addresses American
Veterans on Veterans Day By Kelly Denton-Borhaug.
[Denton-Borhaug will give a version of this talk virtually
to Veterans for Peace Chapter 102 at a Reclaim Armistice Day meeting at the
Milwaukee City Hall Rotunda this Veteran's Day.]
Dear Veterans,
I'm a civilian who, like many Americans, has strong ties to
the U.S. Armed Forces. I never considered enlisting, but my father, uncles,
cousins, and nephews did. As a child I baked cookies to send with letters
to my cousin Steven who was serving in Vietnam. My family tree includes
soldiers on both sides of the Civil War. Some years before my father died,
he shared with me his experience of being drafted during the Korean War
and, while on leave, traveling to Hiroshima, Japan. There, just a few short
years after an American atomic bomb had devastated that city as World War
II ended, he was haunted by seeing the dark shadows of
the dead cast onto concrete by the nuclear blast.
Click here to read more of
this dispatch.
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GOOGLE SEARCH, Friday, November 11, 2022
Feedback
At the urging of major
US veteran organizations, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.
Feedback
Armistice Day - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org ›
wiki › Armistice_Day
This
article is about the memorial day to honour the war dead following the
Armistice at the end of World War I. For memorials on 11 November after
World War II ...
Significance: Commemoration
of the signing of ...
Observed by: Belgium,
France, United Kingdom, ...
Date: 11
November
Related to: Coincides
with Remembrance Day ...
History in Allied countries · 21st century · Footnotes
Armistice Day: UK holds two-minute
silence
1 hour ago Star
Tribune 
BBC
Two-minute Armistice Day silence held
across the UK
History of Veterans Day - Office of Public and
...
https://www.va.gov ›
opa › vetsday › vetdayhistory
Armistice
Day was primarily a day set aside to honor veterans
of World War I, but in 1954, after
World War II had required the greatest mobilization of soldiers ...
Armistice Day: World War I ends - HISTORY
https://www.history.com ›
this-day-in-history › world-...
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany,
bereft of manpower and supplies and faced ...
CONTENTS ARMISTICE DAY 2021 ANTHOLOGY
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/armistice-day-newsletter-november-11.html
Syracuse, NY, Remembers Armistice Day for Peace
Veterans for Peace,
Reclaims Armistice Day
“Armistice Is for
Everyone” by Garett Reppenhagen, VFP Exec. Dir.
World Beyond War
Kellogg Briand
Pact
CONTENTS ARMISTICE DAY
2020 ANTHOLOGY
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/11/armistice-day-novemer-11-2020.html
CONTENTS ARMISTICE DAY 2019 ANTHOLOGY
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2019/11/omni-armistice-day-newsletter-november.html
CONTENTS ARMISTICE DAY 2018 ANTHOLOGY
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2018/11/omni-armistice-day-newsletter-2018.html
CONTENTS Armistice
Day Newsletter #11, Nov. 11, 2017
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2017/11/omni-armistice-day-newsletter-11-nov-11.html
CONTENTS Armistice
Day Newsletter #10, Nov. 11, 2016
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2016/11/armistice-day-111111-newsletter-2016.html
END ARMISTICE DAY ANTHOLOGY 2022
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