Gravelbourg & District Tribune

Have we wasted all these years?

 

What was the real purpose?

 

I’m referring to Remembrance Day.

 

The last few decades have been brutal for anyone advocating for peace. We are actually talking about forever wars. Pushing for these forever wars are U.S. and Israel who is now in a full blown two-year genocide. Today there is even talk of World War III.

 

Professor Glenn Diesen wrote : THE THINK TANK RACKET: Managing the Information War Against Russia. This is a book that points to Think Tanks, full of “experts” and paid for, in large part, by weapons contractors, guiding politicians and media down the chute of military preparedness. He also points to how Russia has been a particular victim of these groups. (We may as well include China).

 

Canadians recognize Remembrance Day, originally called Armistice Day, every 11 November at 11 a.m. It marks the end of hostilities during the First World War and an opportunity to recall all those who have served in the nation’s defence. Armistice Day was inaugurated in 1919 throughout much of the British Empire, but on the second Monday in November. In 1921, the Canadian Parliament passed an Armistice Day bill to observe ceremonies on the first Monday in the week of 11 November, but this combined the event with the Thanksgiving Day holiday. For much of the 1920s, Canadians observed the date with little public demonstration. Veterans and their families gathered in churches and around local memorials, but observances involved few other Canadians.

 

In 1928, some prominent citizens, many of them veterans, pushed for greater recognition and to separate the remembrance of wartime sacrifice from the Thanksgiving holiday. In 1931, the federal government decreed that the newly named Remembrance Day would be observed on 11 November and moved Thanksgiving Day to a different date.

 

Remembrance Day would emphasize the memory of fallen soldiers instead of the political and military events leading to victory in the First World War. 11 November Remembrance Day rejuvenated interest in recalling the war and military sacrifice, attracting thousands to ceremonies in cities large and small across the country. It remained a day to honour the fallen, but traditional services also witnessed occasional calls to remember the horror of war and to embrace peace.

 

Source Canadian War Museum; Global Research