{"id":9395,"date":"2018-11-23T17:49:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9395"},"modified":"2018-11-23T17:49:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T17:49:01","slug":"armistice-day-remembered-on-100-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=9395","title":{"rendered":"Armistice Day Remembered on 100-Year Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9389\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9389\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9389\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gr-64569-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gr-64569-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gr-64569-1-1-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gr-64569-1-1-405x298.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peace organizations are working to restore Armistice Day, which was renamed Veterans day in 1954, as a day for celebrating peace. Photo: Tim Pierce\/Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>by Eric Galatas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>AUSTIN, Texas \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0President Donald Trump is set to be in Paris this weekend to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of Armistice Day, which marked the end of World War I.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Hochschild wrote an award-winning book on what was then called \u2018the War to End All Wars,\u2019 a conflict that killed more than nine million soldiers, wounded 21 million more, and also left millions of civilians dead.<\/p>\n<p>Hochschild says the war \u2013 which he argues, like most, didn\u2019t have to happen \u2013 reshaped the 20th century in ways we\u2019re still grappling with today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt also laid the groundwork for the Second World War and for the Holocaust, by leaving behind a tremendous reservoir of bitterness and hatred and resentment \u2013 in Germany, especially \u2013 and the need to find scapegoats,\u201d says Hochschild.<\/p>\n<p>Hochschild says the legacy of World War I, which leaders on all sides believed would be brief and solve problems, offers lessons worth remembering today as the U.S. makes threats against China and Iran, and prepares to pull out of an arms-control treaty with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Hochschild doesn\u2019t want to minimize the sacrifices of those who served. But he thinks people such as labor leader Eugene Debs and political activist Emma Goldman \u2013 both of whom were sent to jail for opposing the war \u2013 should be celebrated on this centennial, rather than politicians and generals.<\/p>\n<p>He notes during Goldman\u2019s trial, she told the jury her patriotism \u2018is like the man who loves a woman with open eyes \u2013 he\u2019s enchanted by her beauty, yet he sees her faults.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when we remember the war and Armistice Day, I want us to remember people like her \u2013 like Debs, like their counterparts in England, Germany, France, everywhere \u2013 who spoke out against the war at the time,\u201d says Hochschild.<\/p>\n<p>Armistice Day was observed as a day to oppose war\u2019s devastation for decades in the U.S.; then, Congress changed the name to Veterans Day in 1954. Organizations including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.veteransforpeace.org\/\" target=\"parent\">Veterans for Peace<\/a>, which has been barred from some Veterans Day events, are working to restore Armistice Day as a day to celebrate peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Eric Galatas AUSTIN, Texas \u2013\u00a0President Donald Trump is set to be in Paris this weekend to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of Armistice Day, which marked the end of World War I. Adam Hochschild wrote an award-winning book on what was then called \u2018the War to End All Wars,\u2019 a conflict that killed more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9396,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395\/revisions\/9396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}