Armistice Day

Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader wanted to take a moment to comment on the occasion of this Armistice Day. Your Maximum Leader still prefers to call it Armistice Day over Veterans Day for three reasons. First is that growing up, all of your Maximum Leader's grandparents called it Armistice Day. Second, your Maximum Leader is an unrepentant Anglophile. Third, your Maximum Leader believes that buy calling it Armistice Day he might prompt some people to think back to The Great War and how horrifying it was. Your Maximum Leader cries when he thinks of the carnage of the great battles of the Great War. The Somme. Ypres. Verdun. They all make him weep.

You know, with all of the contreversy surrounding showing "Saving Private Ryan" tonight on ABC; your Maximum Leader would like to remind Americans that we WON the Normandy invasion. Yes it took the lives of many GI's to do it. But we won. We beat back the Germans. We liberated France. We liberated Europe.

Now think about the Battle of the Somme. What was won there? Nothing. It is much harder to deal with the losses for no purpose.

Anyway.

Your Maximum Leader, not wanting to be too graphic, decided he would pass along the following link. At 106, French veteran remembers life in World War I trenches. There aren't many WWI vets left. Your Maximum Leader hopes some historian is interviewing those remaining and getting their stories.

We can't afford to lose them.

Carry on.