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HISTORY HAPPENS TODAY
A very historic event happens at 11AM this very Sunday morning.
A very historic event happens at 11AM this very Sunday morning.
For at 11AM this morning,
this will mark the eleventh hour of the eleventh month of the eleventh day
that 100 years ago on this very day World War I ended,
"The War to End all Wars."
"So what,"
you may say?
Well, the world has NEVER EVER been the same since World War 1.
For out of it, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Poland were born.
Modern strongmen and the fascist (Hitler) and communist political systems (Lenin) grew out of it.
World War 1 introduced submarines, machine guns, poison gas (chemical weapons), grenades, tanks and trench warfare.
It gave us the words "cooties," "tanks," "dough boy," "fed up," "dud," "zeroing in,"
"camouflage," "no man's land" and expanded the meaning of "Yank."
It gave us Daylight Savings Time, the draft (Selective Service System in the USA)
and the war popularized Kleenex, tea bags and zippers.
The world is pausing to remember this momentous occasion
... and not remember it as well.
For USA President Donald Trump, the light rain yesterday was too much of a deterrent
to travel to the World War 1 Aisne-Marne American Cemetery by helicopter in France
with other world leaders to commemorate those fallen soldiers
from this huge first-time world-wide conflict.
Well, not all world leaders or those in the world today will neglect
taking a moment today to show tribute and pay remembrance.
I certainly will not.
What about you?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/10/world/gallery/wwi-centenary-1110/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLZxnSdivm8
this will mark the eleventh hour of the eleventh month of the eleventh day
that 100 years ago on this very day World War I ended,
"The War to End all Wars."
"So what,"
you may say?
Well, the world has NEVER EVER been the same since World War 1.
For out of it, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Poland were born.
Modern strongmen and the fascist (Hitler) and communist political systems (Lenin) grew out of it.
World War 1 introduced submarines, machine guns, poison gas (chemical weapons), grenades, tanks and trench warfare.
It gave us the words "cooties," "tanks," "dough boy," "fed up," "dud," "zeroing in,"
"camouflage," "no man's land" and expanded the meaning of "Yank."
It gave us Daylight Savings Time, the draft (Selective Service System in the USA)
and the war popularized Kleenex, tea bags and zippers.
The world is pausing to remember this momentous occasion
... and not remember it as well.
For USA President Donald Trump, the light rain yesterday was too much of a deterrent
to travel to the World War 1 Aisne-Marne American Cemetery by helicopter in France
with other world leaders to commemorate those fallen soldiers
from this huge first-time world-wide conflict.
Well, not all world leaders or those in the world today will neglect
taking a moment today to show tribute and pay remembrance.
I certainly will not.
What about you?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/10/world/gallery/wwi-centenary-1110/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLZxnSdivm8
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