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crookedtimber.org — It’s 90 years today since the Armistice that brought a temporary halt to fighting on the Western Front of the Great War. The War had already brought forth the horrors of Bolshevism and fighting in Russia continued well beyond the Armistice. Within a few years, Fascism and Nazism were also ...

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Armistice Day
Lawyers, Guns and Money — ... ask me where I've been, And what I've done and seen. But what can I reply Who know it wasn't I, But someone just like me, Who went across the sea And with my head and hands Killed men in foreign lands... Though I must bear the blame, Because he bore my name.Wilfred Gibson Ten verified veterans of the First World War remain. On distaste for the "Veterans Day" construction, see here, here, here, and here.

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