Armistice Day
I feel the best vengance my dead boy could hope for would be an integrated world, an organized humanity.”– HB Higgins, judge and bereaved father of son killed on the front in WWI, 1917
November 11 was designated a day to celebrate International Peace following the war to end all wars, WWI. Disgusted by all the senseless slaughter of their children, parents hoped this day would be a day to make wars a thing of the past. Help us remember the original meaning of this day. Visit Veterans for Peace and learn how you can help reclaim Armistice Day.
” I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?'” -Eve Merriam