A Thought on Veterans Day

So, in the US it’s Veteran’s Day again. A Veteran’s Thoughts on Veteran’s Day As readers of this Crummy Little Blog That Nobody Reads (CLBTNR) know, we have some problems with war memorials and war related holidays. Today somebody or other pointed at Kurt Vonnegut’s book, Breakfast of Champions (emphasis added): “… November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy […] all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to…

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