05:25 am - QotD
[From the Wikipedia article on Veterans Day (the name in the US for what is called Remembrance Day elsewhere): "An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday; 'a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day'.'" Let us remember the dead, honour the veterans, and pray (or if you're an atheist, hope really hard) and work for peace.]
"As always, Canada will now bury its war dead, just as the rest of the world, as always, will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does. It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance." -- Kevin Myers
"One day a year, we pause to remember
[...]
We remember
in hope that the scars of war will fade from the Earth...
That the
sins of the past will be forgiven...[...]"
-- Ed "Mr Jitters" Appleby (author of the comic strip
Ed's R Us*,
2008-11-11 (yes, today)
[The whole thing is short, so it won't take long to go read
it ... If any of my readers can't view the graphic containing
the text, let me know. Not that I expect that problem to come up,
since I think I'm the only one around here who uses Lynx all that
often.]
"We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. Make our troops know we're for them and trying to get them out of there." -- Molly Ivins (from her last column, January 11, 2007) (via Jone Johnson Lewis' collection of quotations on about.com)
[*] The apostrophe in the title ain't my fault; that's how it appears on the web site.