#1 The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month....
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:25 am
On the 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month of the Year of our Lord 1918, the guns that had thundered for four years in Europe - and indeed, across the globe - finally went silent. The Great War had ended, having left lives, families, nations, and an entire generation shattered in its terrible wake. In its aftermath new and old nations arose from the fallen empires of Central and Eastern Europe and, alas, so too were the seeds sown for an even more devastating and terrible conflict and a division that would leave the world under a nuclear Sword of Damocles until near the end of the century.
We have an obligation to remember those struck down by the Great War. And we have an obligation to honor them in perhaps the only fit way there is; to ensure that never again does the world become engulfed in such a terrible conflagration.
For if we fail in that obligation, then the words of Santayana will prove our bane: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Lest We Forget...
We have an obligation to remember those struck down by the Great War. And we have an obligation to honor them in perhaps the only fit way there is; to ensure that never again does the world become engulfed in such a terrible conflagration.
For if we fail in that obligation, then the words of Santayana will prove our bane: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Lest We Forget...
