11/11/24 Grif.Net - Armistice Day

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[Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. But many want to keep this day as a very special tribute.]

 

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

~John F. Kennedy

 

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

~Mark Twain

 

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 mankind.

~Kurt Vonnegut

 

~War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Jimmy Carter

 

~We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Cynthia Ozick

 

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

~George Canning

 

"Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!". 

~Rudyard Kipling

 

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Dr Bob Griffin

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