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@evan Tough question. The answer depends on where you live. Obviously 11/11 is Armistice Day, and commemorates the end of WW1. It is also Veteran's Day in many countries. And in France, it commemorates all who have died in defense of France (closes to remembrance of people who died in war).
@evan Other; it commemorates the end of war.
Kurt Vonnegut put it better than I could, so I’ll just quote him:
> It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
@evan (US only) All living veterans. For those who have died, there's Memorial Day in May.
🎵 November 11th, Ned Kelly died
Shame, Frazier, shame!
And we all cried
For you, Gough
You, Gough
Edward Gough Whitlam
Referencing:
The Dismissal, 11 Nov 1975 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis)
The execution of bushranger Ned Kelly, 11 Nov 1880 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Kelly)
@evan Release date of Skyrim 11-11-11
@evan start of Carnival season
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Sint Maarten...
Sorry, very local. Article in Dutch.
(For being in Utrecht it's the patron)
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint-Maarten_(feest)
@Steeph please tell me this isn't the blackface one
@evan Start of the carnival
@evan like every day and indeed every thing it is self-commemorating. Also:
WA6O-DB, with a question...
@evan armistice day, signing the armistice that ended World War 1 was 1918-11-11, making this year its 107th anniversary.
WWII was inconceivable until it wasn’t.
The US might split Veterans Day and Memorial Day but Remembrance Day has should have a very healthy helping of “Never Again”.
The fallen since then, and growing civilian casualties, are a mark that - if not forgotten - we fall short in ways my grandparents would never have guessed in 1945 despite being the second.
@evan Singles' day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singles%27_Day, which turned into a large discount period; ultracapitalist here !
@evan I think you mean armed forces and not specifically soldiers. However I think the day is about remembering more than the military sacrifices. Plenty of civilians do extraordinary things and risk their lives too. I think of the day as remembering the horrors of war to hope to prevent more wars.