Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France at 5:45 am, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. But, according to Thomas R. Gowenlock, an intelligence officer with the US First Division, shelling from both sides continued for the rest of the day, only ending at nightfall.[1][2] The armistice initially expired after a period of 36 days. A formal peace agreement was only reached when the Treaty of Versailles was signed the following year
-Wikipedia
Ceasefire.
I received a snotty reply on Twitter from an Australian on Veterans Day.
It was from something I tweeted in early December 2017.
Walter Tremayne-- "But if you don't have wars you don't get veterans."
Dare to dream, Walter, dare to dream.
Meanwhile, Trump is a weak asshole trying to dismantle the allegiance we have with Europe.
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