now, tastes more like real life

Every time Veterans' Day rolls around, I think about Kurt Vonnegut, who in one of his books, insists that he continue to call it Armistice Day. Which I like so much better. Not that I am not all about respecting vets and all, but Armistice Day makes it sound... serene... peaceful... like we are really just all taking a breather from violence etc. for all our sakes. Plus, everyone else still calls it Armistice Day, right? I feel like it's a real return, nostalgic and everything, to a time when no one had seen anything as bad as WWI. It was, at the time, the Great War - the most horrifying thing possible - and everyone said to themselves "Never again." What a nice thing to remember once a year.

Anyway, Happy Armistice Day!