Why did America rename Armistice Day Veteran's Day?

[CultureClash]

Am I the only one a little annoyed by people that say "it only happens once in a lifetime!" Yes, that's kind of how time works. A given date only happens once in a lifetime...

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[Uncle Sparky]

Armistice Day is about ending a war, which is not really something Americans do.

[SlowwHand]

? That's even more dumb than what you're giving the thumbs up to.

[Asher]

I call it Remembrance Day. :shrug:

[dannubis]

My great-grandfather felt the same way; he won the Distinguished Service Cross (or some damned thing like that) as a member of the "Polar Bears", fighting the Reds in Russia.

Hated everything about it.

It seems there was/is a general consensus. My great grandfathers hated their decorations too. "It was nothing to be proud of" is the general description of what they thought.

[molly bloom]

You're like an old man with these boring ass personal stories. So extreme is your attempt to mimic an old man that your first sentence was a 68-word run-on sentence, you repeated yourself with a summary at the end, and you brought in irrelevant details like the year your grandmother was born.

And still his post was more interesting than yours.

[Pax]

Young men, soldiers, nineteen fourteen
Marching through countries they'd never seen
Virgins with rifles, a game of charades
All for a children's crusade

Pawns in the game are not victims of chance
Strewn on the fields of Belgium and France
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of these young lives betrayed

The children of England would never be slaves
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
The flower of England face down in the mud
And stained in the blood of a whole generation

Corpulent generals safe behind lines
History's lessons drowned in red wine
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a children's crusade

The children of England would never be slaves
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
The flower of England face down in the mud
And stained in the blood of a whole generation

Midnight in Soho nineteen eighty four
Fixing in doorways, opium slaves
Poppies for young men, such bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed
All for a children's crusade

[giblets]

That's nice, who wrote that?

[SlowwHand]

Sting does a song by that name on The Dream of the Blue Turtles.

[Pax]

That is Stings song.

[Dr Strangelove]

The idea of changing the name to Veterans Day started with Alvin King the owner of a shoe repair shop in Emporia Kansas in 1953, reasoning that the US needed a holiday to honor Veterans of all of its wars. The idea caught on pretty quickly, probably because the country still freshly remembered WW2 and wanted a holiday that included the veterans of WW2.

[Dauphin]

I guess the limited number of American civilian deaths means that only veterans get specifically remembered, rather than all who died in wars.

[Al B. Sure!]

I guess the limited number of American civilian deaths means that only veterans get specifically remembered, rather than all who died in wars.

We have Memorial Day.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

[Thoth]

In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

It's called Remembrance Day dumbarses.