November 11, 2017

November 11, 2017

Armistice Day

Remembrance Day

Veterans Day

Veterans Day - http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp

From Robert Laurence Binyon's "For the Fallen" - the "Ode to Remembrance"...

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Full poem (September, 1914) - http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/laurence-binyon-for-the-fallen.htm

From the Kohima Monument in Myanmar (ex-Burma) - attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds;

When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today

"In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae (May, 1915) - http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/john-mccrae-in-flanders-fields.htm

Many of the global political issues of the 21st century are founded in the post World War One era - the growth of the United States as a world power, the middle east, the recognition of Japan as a global nation, the creation of many of the Eastern European nations, the dissolution of the Russian Empire, the concept of "self-determination" of peoples.

Just as many have little knowledge on how the United States grew, many also have little idea on how much impact World War One had on the world we live in today.

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