[Armistice Da=
y has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not.=
But many want to keep this day as a very special tribute.]=
As we express our gratitude, we must=
never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to l=
ive by them.
~John F. Kennedy
In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man=
, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join=
him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
~Mark Twain
All the people of all the n=
ations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleve=
nth minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh da=
y of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and =
eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering on=
e another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that mi=
nute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was t=
he Voice of God. So, we still have among us some men who can remember when =
God spoke clearly to mankind.
~Kurt Vonnegut
~War may sometimes be a necessary evil. =
But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will no=
t learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
Jimmy Carter
~We=
often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick
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Lord, bid war’s trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?=
~George Canning
"Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we f=
orget — lest we forget!".
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Rudyard Kipling
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Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net
"Jesus Knows Me, This I L=
ove!"