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fidjiefidjie · 5 months
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Bonjour☕️ bonne journée de l'Armistice 🇨🇵🕊
L'Arc de Triomphe🗼Paris 1950s
Photo de Albert Monier
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military1st · 5 months
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Remembrance Day
Whether you observe Remembrance Day or Veterans Day, please take a moment to honour and show respect to the brave individuals who served in the First and Second World Wars, as well as in subsequent conflicts.
Photo by Quaritsch Photography on Unsplash.
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rabbitcruiser · 8 months
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Cessation of hostilities was achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement on July 27, 1953. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refused to sign but pledged to observe the armistice. 
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greigferguson · 1 year
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We never really drink alone…
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In the Air by Christopher Nevinson, 1917. Lithograph.
Today is Armistice Day, commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the end of the First World War and the armistice signed.⁠ ⁠
In this work by Christopher Nevinson the abstract patchwork of fields is laid out under the wing of a military aircraft, the sharp angles of the composition emphasising the dizzying height of the plane.⁠ During the war, the world was being seen from entirely new angles, inspiring artists to experiment and to depict landscape in new, unexpected ways.
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
November 11, 2023
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
NOV 12, 2023
In 1918, at the end of four years of World War I’s devastation, leaders negotiated for the guns in Europe to fall silent once and for all on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was not technically the end of the war, which came with the Treaty of Versailles. Leaders signed that treaty on June 28, 1919, five years to the day after the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand set off the conflict. But the armistice declared on November 11 held, and Armistice Day became popularly known as the day “The Great War,” which killed at least 40 million people, ended.
In November 1919, President Woodrow Wilson commemorated Armistice Day, saying that Americans would reflect on the anniversary of the armistice “with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…."
But Wilson was disappointed that the soldiers’ sacrifices had not changed the nation’s approach to international affairs. The Senate, under the leadership of Republican Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts—who had been determined to weaken Wilson as soon as the imperatives of the war had fallen away—refused to permit the United States to join the League of Nations, Wilson’s brainchild: a forum for countries to work out their differences with diplomacy, rather than resorting to bloodshed. 
On November 10, 1923, just four years after he had established Armistice Day, former President Wilson spoke to the American people over the new medium of radio, giving the nation’s first live, nationwide broadcast. 
“The anniversary of Armistice Day should stir us to a great exaltation of spirit,” he said, as Americans remembered that it was their example that had “by those early days of that never to be forgotten November, lifted the nations of the world to the lofty levels of vision and achievement upon which the great war for democracy and right was fought and won.” 
But he lamented “the shameful fact that when victory was won,…chiefly by the indomitable spirit and ungrudging sacrifices of our own incomparable soldiers[,] we turned our backs upon our associates and refused to bear any responsible part in the administration of peace, or the firm and permanent establishment of the results of the war—won at so terrible a cost of life and treasure—and withdrew into a sullen and selfish isolation which is deeply ignoble because manifestly cowardly and dishonorable.” 
Wilson said that a return to engagement with international affairs was “inevitable”; the U.S. eventually would have to take up its “true part in the affairs of the world.” 
Congress didn’t want to hear it. In 1926 it passed a resolution noting that since November 11, 1918, “marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far reaching war in human annals and the resumption by the people of the United States of peaceful relations with other nations, which we hope may never again be severed,” the anniversary of that date “should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations.”
In 1938, Congress made November 11 a legal holiday to be dedicated to world peace. 
But neither the “war to end all wars” nor the commemorations of it, ended war.
Just three years after Congress made Armistice Day a holiday for peace, American armed forces were fighting a second world war, even more devastating than the first. The carnage of World War II gave power to the idea of trying to stop wars by establishing a rules-based international order. Rather than trying to push their own boundaries and interests whenever they could gain advantage, countries agreed to abide by a series of rules that promoted peace, economic cooperation, and security. 
The new international system provided forums for countries to discuss their differences—like the United Nations, founded in 1945—and mechanisms for them to protect each other, like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), established in 1949, which has a mutual defense pact that says any attack on a NATO country will be considered an attack on all of them. 
In the years since, those agreements multiplied and were deepened and broadened to include more countries and more ties. While the U.S. and other countries sometimes fail to honor them, their central theory remains important: no country should be able to attack a neighbor, slaughter its people, and steal its lands at will. This concept preserved decades of relative peace compared to the horrors of the early twentieth century, but it is a concept that is currently under attack as autocrats increasingly reject the idea of a rules-based international order and claim the right to act however they wish.
In 1954, to honor the armed forces of wars after World War I, Congress amended the law creating Armistice Day by striking out the word “armistice” and putting “veterans” in its place. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, himself a veteran who had served as the supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and who had become a five-star general of the Army before his political career, later issued a proclamation asking Americans to observe Veterans Day:
“[L]et us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.”
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
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spacedadsupport · 5 months
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Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Peace is worth striving for and protecting. 1:54 PM · Nov 11, 2023
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vox-anglosphere · 1 year
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' ..and from the ground there blossoms red, life that shall endless be. '
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pratchettquotes · 2 years
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Once upon a time, the plural of "wizard" was "war."
But the great, open ingenious purpose of UU was to be the weight on the arm of magic, causing it to swing with grave majesty like a pendulum rather than spin with deadly purpose like a morningstar. Instead of hurling fireballs at one another from fortified towers the wizards learned to snipe at their colleagues over the interpretation of Faculty Council minutes, and long ago were amazed to find that they got just as much vicious fun out of it. They consumed big dinners, and after a really good meal and a fine cigar even the most rabid Dark Lord is inclined to put his feet up and feel amicable towards the world, especially if it's offering him another brandy. And slowly, by degrees, they absorbed the most important magical power of all, which is the one that persuades you to stop using all the others.
Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
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coffeenuts · 3 months
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justforbooks · 5 months
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At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month – we will Remember Them.
The red poppy is a symbol of both Remembrance and hope for a peaceful future.
During WW1, much of the fighting took place in Western Europe. The countryside was blasted, bombed and fought over repeatedly. Previously beautiful landscapes turned to mud; bleak and barren scenes where little or nothing could grow.
There was a notable and striking exception to the bleakness - the bright red Flanders poppies. These resilient flowers flourished in the middle of so much chaos and destruction, growing in the thousands upon thousands.
Shortly after losing a friend in Ypres, a Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae was moved by the sight of these poppies and that inspiration led him to write the now famous poem 'In Flanders Fields'.
The poem then inspired an American academic named Moina Michael to adopt the poppy in memory of those who had fallen in the war. She campaigned to get it adopted as an official symbol of Remembrance across the United States and worked with others who were trying to do the same in Canada, Australia, and the UK.
Also involved with those efforts was a French woman, Anna Guérin who was in the UK in 1921 where she planned to sell the poppies in London.
There she met Earl Haig who was persuaded to adopt the poppy as our emblem in the UK. The Royal British Legion, which had been formed in 1921, ordered nine million poppies and sold them on 11 November that year.
The poppies sold out almost immediately. That first 'Poppy Appeal' raised over £106,000 to help veterans with housing and jobs; a considerable sum at the time.
In view of how quickly the poppies had sold and wanting to ensure plenty of poppies for the next appeal, Major George Howson set up the Poppy Factory to employ disabled ex-servicemen.
The demand for poppies in England continued unabated and was so high, in fact, that few poppies actually managed to reach Scotland. To address this and meet growing demand, Earl Haig's wife Dorothy established the 'Lady Haig Poppy Factory' in Edinburgh in 1926 to produce poppies exclusively for Scotland.
Today, over five million Scottish poppies (which have four petals and no leaf unlike poppies in the rest of the UK) are still made by hand by disabled ex-Servicemen at Lady Haig's Poppy Factory each year.
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annerbhp · 1 year
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Tobias and Arthur, after a LONG time fighting for it, have finally managed to get a muggle working in the Muggle relations department. She has a little sister who is a Witch and recommended her for the job since she studied communication and politics in uni (I have no idea if that combo is a thing, just go with it) so she started coming in to consult along with her main job in the muggle world. Tobias is still in his slut era and he’s tryna flirt but she’s very unimpressed and they start off at the wrong foot. Cut to shenanigans, they become friends, they start hiring more muggles, she takes up the muggle studies post and they end up together. I’ve been fantasizing about it for weeks now, so tempted to write it.
Write it. I dare you. double dog dare you. Give the world more Tobias. It's what the world deserves.
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fidjiefidjie · 5 months
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“Les amis ne sont rien d'autre que les ennemis avec lesquels nous avons conclu un armistice, qui n'est pas toujours honnêtement observé.” 🕊🫐🌿
Giovanni Papini
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ochipi · 1 year
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“We are the dead.
Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn
Saw sunset glow.”
Lest we forget.
Poem Excerpt: “In Flanders Fields” by John McRae
Photos: @ochipi taken while demining at the Somme Region, France.
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scotianostra · 1 year
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Scotland falls silent in memory of fallen soldiers.
Tributes will be paid across the country, with two minute's silence held at 11am.
The one o’clock gun at Edinburgh Castle will be fired at 11am as the country pays its respects to those who have given their lives over the years.
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bantarleton · 1 year
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Edinburgh’s Remembrance Sunday, 2022.
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TODAY’S FROZEN MOMENT - this shot which has come to be titled “Almost” was taken at exactly 1:52pm on Thursday, November 7th, 1918.
105th Anniversary - On November 7th, 1918, word started to get out that the Germans had surrendered and that an armistice had been signed. While this was false and wouldn’t happen for a few more days, the very good news spread anyway, and like wildfire. Here on Wall Street, people rejoiced at the end of World War One. How this premature bit of news got started was that an Amerrican admiral, Henry Wilson, told a UPI reporter friend, Roy Howard, that he had received a phone call from a friend employed in the American Embassy that the hostilities were over. Howard, thinking he had been given the greatest scoop of all time, leaped without doing journalistic due diligence of getting at least one more solid source, and forged the signature of his UPI foreign editor, transmitting his big story immediately. Wall Street was the first to hear it, as is oddly often the case. Trading was stopped and the classic shredded ticker tape readied.
Later, the New York Times called Howard and UPI’s reporting of this, "the most flagrant and culpable act of public deception.” (Would that they were as scathing nowadays about false info) As we all know now, the war wasn’t really over for four more days, the treaty being signed in the eleventh hour of the seventh hour the eleventh day, 1918. It is said that over 3000 boys were killed on the morning of that last day, before the armistice was finally signed.
The photographer here was W.J. Drummond
[Mary Elaine LeBey]
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