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Joe Sacco and Adam Hochschild

Veterans Day, 95 Years On

The Enduring Folly of the Battle of the Somme.

November 11th, 2013

By Joe Sacco and Adam Hochschild

Veterans Day, 95 Years On

In a country that uses every possible occasion to celebrate its “warriors,” many have forgotten that today’s holiday originally marked a peace agreement. Veterans Day in the United States originally was called Armistice Day and commemorated the ceasefire which, at 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918, ended the First World War. Up to that point, it had

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