
This year will be the first time a German chancellor has ever participated in the commemoration of Armistice Day, when Germany was defeated in France.
Now that's progress and look, it's only taken them the better part of a century to get this far!
Really it's astonishing to think that WWI was nearly a century ago.
It's astonishing that so many people don't remember why Veterans Day is the 11th of November. World War I decimated a generation and stands as a turning point in world history. Not only should we take a moment today to remember Veterans and servicepersons, we should ponder the significance of the First World War.
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