Re-posted from 2011… also please visit John Erickson’s post here. All old people jokes aside, I’d point out that this holiday, born out of the ashes of WWI, will be observed this year (2012) for the first time without a living veteran of that war. And so the saying goes, we just fade away…
Those of you with history in my blog know in advance this is not going to be a funny post. Far from it: this entry is to ensure you all don’t miss the significance of today beyond the really serendipetous arrangement of the digit “1” when representing the date. 
Equally pleasing is the idea that all of our foreign friends can probably also tangentially enjoy the meaning of the day in some Continue reading
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