The 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month is 30 minutes away.

[Tyler Durden]

I shall be tuning my radio to the CBC/Canada to hear the call of the Bugle at the Cenotaph. This can probably be streamed from their site.

I recommend this ritual highly. I do it every year, and next year have vowed to be at the Cenotaph in person.

I take this moment to honor RSM Henry Johnson, Princess Patricia's CLI, 1914-1918/1939-1945, and RCAF Airman Recruit Sidney Johnson, 1942, My Grandfather and My Father.

STAND-TO!

[Raster]

1. please explain the significance a bit more...

[Tyler Durden]

3. Rememberance Day is today.

We called it "Armistice Day" now "Veteran's Day."

The Canadians have a special feeling for this day, as they fought longer and lost more men per capita than us by a long shot in both wars. Of the British it is said that they left the flower of an entire generation on the fields of Flanders.

The Cenotaph is a monument to the Veterans and the Dead. The Bugle sounds in 15 minutes.

[denverbill]

6. Also, as to the significance.

An armistace was declared in WWI on November 11, at 11AM, thus the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.


Fighting continued right up until the very last minute when all guns fell silent.

[maha]

2. Also my grandpa

Corporal Robert John Thomas, U.S. Army., who fought in France in 1918 and fortunately returned home in 1919.

[Tyler Durden]

4. My Grandfather and Father

Both of them died in their beds many years after the wars; they were the lucky ones.

[LoneStarLiberal]

5. Remembrance Day and Veterans' Day

I remembered an uncle I never knew on Sunday and today (KIA 1st Air Commando Group, USAAF, Burma, 1944 (supporting Orde Wingate and his Chindits)), and I will remember two kinsmen today, both fallen with the Seaforth Highlanders, one in WWI and another in WWII.

So, on this day, I say to the Seaforths and my uncle (with their spirit):

Cabar Feidh gu Brath!

[LoneStarLiberal]

7. CBC 1 Seems To Be Streaming

CBC 1 is streaming events as we speak.

[Tyler Durden]

8. Did you hear the call?

They played the lament, the Rememberance spoken.

21 guns behind one of the most beautiful and diverse pleas for peace I have ever heard.

[LoneStarLiberal]

10. Yes

I listened to it, unfortunately I also received a call I could not ignore right as it began, so I was only able to listen with one ear.

[Tyler Durden]

11. I stood outside in the lot next to my car at attention.

And wept like a baby through the whole thing.
I haven't held attention like that since LAST 11/11.

[PVnRT]

9. Vonnegut said it best

I can't quote it exactly been it went something along the lines of: Armistice Day was once solemn, a remembrance and honoring of the fallen, and served as a reminder that war has a terrible, terrible cost. Now, it has been usurped by the living and filled with parades and speeches, and the cost of war is all but forgotten, though empty words are spoken about it.