OK, We're Calm Now

Next week is Armistice Day, what Americans call Veterans Day and Canadians call Remembrance Day, marking the end of World War I (which didn't get that designation until World War II; it was called the World War or the Great War); the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

Some of the battlefields, 90 years on.

One of the last living veterans has died.

I'm not going to do a comprehensive essay, but annually Making Light does a Remembering the Great War compilation of links and history which always fills me with awe, pity, and horror; this link is to last year's posting.

The weekend may be spent rereading The Guns of August and The Proud Tower.