<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I still like to call it Armistice Day...<br> <br></div><div>Ricky <br><br></div><div>"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2">----- Forwarded Message -----<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "RootsAction, Aimee Allison" <info@rootsaction.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> baldwinricky@yahoo.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, November 11, 2011 8:01 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> The True Story of Veterans Day<br></font><br>
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<div><b>Armistice Day celebrates ending war.</b></div>
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<div> Dear Ricky ,<br>
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November 11th was not made a holiday in order to celebrate war, “support the troops” or cheer the 11th year of occupying Afghanistan. <br>
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<a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(43, 104, 104); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4LUOT08ygLc0XOqqJOluuWvcDD1COTbx"><b>Tell Congress and the President to read the pact that outlawed war.</b></a><br>
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Originally called “Armistice Day,” the holiday began in 1918, celebrating the end of World War I and the idea of ending all war. A 10-year campaign launched that year and by 1928 had legally banned all war making.<br>
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We aren't told this in school, but in January 1929 the U.S. Senate ratified by a vote of 85 to 1 a treaty <i><u>that is still on the books</u></i>, still upheld by most of the world, still listed on the U.S. State Department's website — a treaty that under Article VI of the U.S. Constitution is the "supreme law of the land."<br>
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This treaty, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, bans all war. Bad wars and "good wars," aggressive wars and "humanitarian wars" — they are all illegal, having been legally abolished like duelling, blood feuds, and slavery before them.<br>
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On this Veterans Day, let’s make our law makers aware of the law of the land. Ask Congress and the president to <a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(43, 104, 104); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0tBz5hi%2BQTgOx9nu7zWBsGvcDD1COTbx">simply read the Kellogg-Briand Pact</a> (and read it yourself). <br>
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And please forward this email widely.<br>
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The wisdom of the War Outlawry movement of the 1920s is revived in a new book written by RootsAction campaigner David Swanson, titled <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Kx%2FBWICNbTqPnArPq3i2qGvcDD1COTbx">"When the World Outlawed War." </a><br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Aimee, Sarah<br>
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<div><span style="font-size: smaller;"><b>Resources:</b><br>
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Fahrenheit 11-11-11</span></a><span style="font-size: smaller;"><br>
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Veterans for Peace to ring church bells around country at 11:00 for Armistice Day</span></a></div>
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