The 11th of November in 1918 was when the First World War officially came to an end. And that day has been formally marked every year since in remembrance of those who died. When I was growing up it was known as Armistice Day in Australia and I still think of it as that. It is however now ...

ARMISTICE DAY / VETERANS' DAY The 11th of November in 1918 was when the First World War officially came to an end. And that day has been formally marked every year since in remembrance of those who died. When I was growing up it was known as Armistice Day in Australia and I still think of it ...

Ken Houghton Not Veteran's Day, which is a U.S. construction to make certain we don't have to give another Federal holiday to Those Who Served. And arguably not Remembrance Day, the version here in Canada, since ( as Rob[ert] Farley notes ) there are "only" ten known survivors remaining of The ...

Yes, indeed, I am that old—old enough to remember when Veterans Day was called Armistice Day. The change in names occurred in 1954 , when I was very small, in order to accommodate World War II and its veterans. Since then, the original name has largely fallen out of use—although ...

By BJ The day the Great War ended 90 years ago, set aside to remember the fallen from all the wars, before and since.  For this year, a tune that, while more melancholy than I generally like, seems to fit the spirit. In Remembrance Corporal Nicolas Raymond Beauchamp Private ...

By Michael J.W. Stickings Hi all. It's Remembrance Day here in Canada (Veterans Day in the U.S.), I have the day off, and, well, I haven't really had blogging on my mind. On this 90th anniversary of the end of the Great War, I've been at home, spending time with my family -- except ...

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Three poems for Armistice Day. The first is very popular in Britain at this time of year, For The Fallen by Lawrence Binyon. The full poem can be found here, but the fourth verse always draws a tear to my eye: They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, ...

They 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 ...

Ninety years ago today --- at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 --- in a railcar in the woods of Compiegne , France, western democracy prevailed over German militarism. World War I was the first mortal challenge to the relatively young democracies of Europe, and they ...

Courtesy the Census Bureau (via the VA) Veterans Day 2008: Nov. 11 Veterans Day originated as “Armistice Day” on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday ...

My Tyranny of Nice co-author (whose wife may be going into labour btw) has a great selection of video tributes up at his newspaper column (note: 9/11 footage)

It’s Armistice Day . Click here for a Wilfred Owen retrospective. See also last year’s post . The soldier in the photograph above is my grandfather, Cpl. Robert John Thomas, on the day he returned from France in 1919. The lady with him is my grandmother, Dora Sabina Senter ...

The war to end all wars ended at 11:11 on November 11, 1918. A holiday was declared called "Armistice Day" which with time became our holiday of Veterans Day. We honor all the men and women who have served so...

Today is Armistice Day. That's what it was originally called. Ninety years ago today on the eleventh hour of the day the 'war to end all wars' ended. I cannot help but to think of Ed Nedemier, a corn-fed and raised farm boy from Iowa, who, in 1917 was shipped off to France to fight the boche. ...

Today marks the 90th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that brought an end to the fighting in World War I. That day, once called Armistice Day, is now Veterans Day. It's become my tradition to mark the day with the poem In Flanders Field by John McCrae. In Flanders fields the poppies ...

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. That's when it all ended in 1918. The war to end all wars. It's a public holiday in France today to honor the end of WWI. My paternal grandfather arrived in America just a few years before the war broke out and when the US jumped in, ...

Not too long ago Ayaan Hirsi Ali was being interviewed by a Canadian tool (who ultimately went to work for Al-Jazeera), and he kept asking her why she didn't seem to think that American militarism and imperialism and such were just as dangerous as the threat of Islamic jihad and Islamic ...

Re: the disgusting news we reported here yesterday, Ezra continues: But I think I missed the key point -- the point that Jay Currie and Kathy Shaidle highlighted. Remembrance Day isn't a day for politics. It's about the most non-political, non-partisan day you could imagine. Yet ...