Because the tradition of remembering the war dead at this time in November dates from Armistice Day 1918 - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, etc.cdd wrote:A question for you all: Why is it world war one in particular that gets commemorated?
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James Hatts
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well yes but the black handed men were surely just expressing their preference to the kaiserSput wrote:I don't know, black men's hands shouldn't just get up by themselves and destroy popular Scottish rock groups you know! People were bound to be upset!
"He has to be larger than bacon"
The black handed men might think the Kaiser was THEIR chief but they were mistaken.Hymagumba wrote:well yes but the black handed men were surely just expressing their preference to the kaiserSput wrote:I don't know, black men's hands shouldn't just get up by themselves and destroy popular Scottish rock groups you know! People were bound to be upset!
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things could have been so much betterApropros to which, I still maintain that they should have waited until 24th December 1918 -- that way their claim that the "war would be over by Christmas" would still have held true.James Hatts wrote:Because the tradition of remembering the war dead at this time in November dates from Armistice Day 1918 - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, etc.cdd wrote:A question for you all: Why is it world war one in particular that gets commemorated?
I still maintain that you should shut up.cdd wrote:Apropros to which, I still maintain that they should have waited until 24th December 1918 -- that way their claim that the "war would be over by Christmas" would still have held true.
Knight knight