100 years since the signing of the Armistice.
100 years of silence and bells.
100 years since the end of World War 1.
The years that made our world what it is. The years that changed so much, that shaped so much. How to approach such a day?
With solemnity. With gratitude. With honoring. With remembering.
To the Warrior and Military Dead who sacrificed all they had to give.
To the Warriors and Military personnel who gave all they had to give.
To the families who never saw their loved ones again.
To the families that did.
To the lands that still bear countless scars of trenches and powder, artillery and countless bullets and the blood of all the Dead.
100 years and so many lives have passed that a great forgetting is coming over the nations.
We honor in remembering. In remembering the Dead live.
“78. Cattle die, | and kinsmen die,
And so one dies one’s self;
One thing now | that never dies,
The fame of a dead man’s deeds.”
–Havamol, translated by Henry Adam Bellows
Some resources:
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History: Blueprint for Armgageddon
Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI
BBC Four: The First World War
