This Day In History

German High Command Communique:

November 11th, 1918

"All quiet on the Western Front"

On this day 92 years ago, at 11 am, a ceasefire was signed, ending combat hostilities of the first world war. After four years and nearly twenty million deaths, the "war to end wars" was over. Tragically, as has been the tradition of humanity, we didn't learn our lesson, and each generation makes the same fatal mistake.

The sun's shining down on these green fields of France;
The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance.
The trenches have vanished long under the plow;
No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's Land
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man.
And a whole generation who were butchered and damned.

And I can't help but wonder, Willie McBride,
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?"
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again.

"Those who do not know history..."

Happy Armistice/Veterans Day...take a moment to say a prayer of thanks, and beg God and we won't suffer the same fate.