{"id":30736,"date":"2010-11-11T10:29:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T15:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=30736"},"modified":"2010-11-11T10:44:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T15:44:40","slug":"lest-we-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/lest-we-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"Lest We Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Remembrance
Remembrance Day services in Kingston, Ontario some time in the early 2000s. This is an international holiday marking the end of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918. Photo from City of Kingston, ON website.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n

In the United States, today is called Veterans Day. It’s one of the few national holidays not celebrated on a Monday; it gets its actual day, Nov. 11, which marks the end of World War 1 in 1918. In other countries it’s known as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day. This is the anniversary of what was supposed to be the end of all wars. It wasn’t, of course — let’s just say that since 1918 way too many people have had the opportunity to serve in the military; today is the day we thank them for their service. It’s not the day we honor the fallen — that’s Memorial Day. This is the day to honor our living friends and relatives who have given their commitment, time and energy for a cause they perceived as just — or were drafted by their government and given no choice.<\/p>\n

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
\nBetween their loved home and the war’s desolation!
\nBlest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
\nPraise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
\n— Francis Scott Key, “The Star Spangled Banner,” verse 4<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the United States, today is called Veterans Day. It’s one of the few national holidays not celebrated on a Monday; it gets its actual day, Nov. 11, which marks the end of World War 1 in 1918. In other countries it’s known as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day. This is the anniversary of what … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}