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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I am pretty sure that you recall that I don’t generally celebrate (American) Thanksgiving. My Thanksgiving is more in line of how and when the Pilgrims created the holiday.
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It was on the 11th hour of the 11th month in the year 1918 that “The Great War” ended. The first World War (no one expected the second- but they should have) had that moniker back then. That’s also the name my father employed, too. It was also among the last sanctioned battles in which my grandfather (my mother’s father) was a participant.
Continue reading Armistice Day CIII (Veteran’s Day came much later)
I don’t generally celebrate (American) Thanksgiving. My Thanksgiving is more in line of how and when the Pilgrims created the holiday. That was a version of Sukot, the harvest festival. More akin to Canadian Thanksgiving, which coincides with my holiday. (Think about it. What harvest would you reap in late November?)
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I don’t generally celebrate (American) Thanksgiving. Mostly because my celebrations more closely matches how and when the Pilgrims created the holiday. That celebration was a version of Sukot, the Jewish harvest festival. More akin to Canadian Thanksgiving, which coincides with my holiday. (Think about it. What harvest would you reap in late November?)
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Today is the 101th anniversary of the end of the “The Great War”.
That was what the first World War (no one expected the second- but they should have) was called that back then. It’s the name my father and grandfather used, too. That war was the last sanctioned battle in which my grandfather (my mother’s father) was a participant.
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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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The Ides of March.
A date most of us have learned. Thanks to a long-dead playwright. William Shakespeare. Who ensured the world would remember this day as the one when Julius Caesar, the imperial ruler of Rome, was assassinated.
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Two score and two years ago. Yes, it was that important that I can invoke the memory of the Gettysburg Address, one of the finest speeches ever made. I met Sam 42 years ago. He was a young man then (and I was a kid).
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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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