Ninety years ago a goodly chunk of the world was engaged in The War To End All Wars.

Most people seem to have forgotten the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain, at least in the US. As I've tried to do every Armistice Day since 2003 the Library will have a display honoring those who fought on any side -- primarily the Americans (this is the US), but all who fought.

This year our display will be a shaving stick; a US Rifle, Caliber .30, Model of 1917 and its bayonet; a "tin hat"; a mess kit; some fired cartridge brass, and some poems and photos spread out on an Army blanket.

(The rifle, while functional, will be trigger locked and the bolt removed to render it inoperable.)

The poems include Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est"; the photos include ones taken at Gallipoli, of a line of gassed British soldiers, of life in the trenches. We're displaying the trenches, and most importantly, what those who were there saw and felt (as best we can).

I'll also observe a moment of silence at 11:00 a.m., November 11.