The War to End All Wars

On this day and time 90 years ago, the guns fell silent in Europe, bringing to a close one of the great slaughters of the 20th century.

We remember veterans today, but for just the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, I don’t think it would would be unseemly to recall the millions of people around the world who’ve fallen in war, in uniform or out, since the whole enterprise began.