[politics] 11/11
Armistice Day.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light has a great collection of links posted today that will remind you (in painful detail) why today is a holiday, diminished though it may be.
These links will also show you why we should never forget, even as the Census Bureau and VA estimate that there are fewer than 30 or so American vets of WWI still living; the Brits call it Remembrance Day for a reason, and the red poppies seem so much less jingoistic there than here.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light has a great collection of links posted today that will remind you (in painful detail) why today is a holiday, diminished though it may be.
These links will also show you why we should never forget, even as the Census Bureau and VA estimate that there are fewer than 30 or so American vets of WWI still living; the Brits call it Remembrance Day for a reason, and the red poppies seem so much less jingoistic there than here.
posted by protected static at 11/11/2005 07:30:00 PM
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Notice how the corpse's body is still in reasonably good shape, while all the exposed areas, the head and hands, are already down to bare bone?
Rats.
-tnh
brrrrrrr...
I hadn't thought of that, Teresa...
Funny how details like that somehow make war more horrific, eh? It's almost as if a petty grotesquerie is easier to comprehend than all those sacrificed millions.
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