the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month....

Armistice Day, celebrated in the USA as Veteran's because the war that that was to end all wars was merely the forerunner of the new methods of waging war... and hardly seems fair to ignore those fallen.

our fencing master was in WWI and was only just regaining his sense of smell- fifty years after surviving a gas attack.

maybe a more fitting title should be... mourning man's inhumanity to his fellow man day.