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Armistice Veterans Day (at least to Americans)

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The decision had been negotiated and made.  While the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, the official end  of the Great War,  was celebrated on the 11th hour of the 11th month in 1918.  It took longer to arrange the rules for peace. (Which actually turned out to be the rules to effect a Second World War!)

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11th of the 11th of the 18th

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Today is the first day of the new month of Kislev. (It is actually the second day of the Rosh Chodesh [new moon]  celebration, but that’s a talk for another day.) Which means that 24 days from today, we Jews will begin our holiday of Chanuka, the celebration of lights.

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Armistice Veterans Day

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It was on the 11th hour of the 11th month in 1918 that “The Great War” ended.  Thaw was what the he first World War (no one expected the second- but they should have) was called that back then.    It’s the name my father learned, too- and it was among the last sanctioned battles in which my grandfather (my mother’s father) was a participant.

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