[Peace-discuss] Fw: The True Story of Veterans Day

[Ricky Baldwin]

I still like to call it Armistice Day...
 

Ricky 


"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn

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From: "RootsAction, Aimee Allison" <info at rootsaction.org>
To: baldwinricky at yahoo.com
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 8:01 AM
Subject: The True Story of Veterans Day


  
 
Armistice Day celebrates ending war. 

  
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Dear Ricky ,

November 11th was not made a holiday in order to celebrate war, “support the troops” or cheer the 11th year of occupying Afghanistan.  

Tell Congress and the President to read the pact that outlawed war.

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.

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 that is still on the books, 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."

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.

On this Veterans Day, let’s make our law makers aware of the law of the land. Ask Congress and the president to simply read the Kellogg-Briand Pact (and read it yourself). 

And please forward this email widely.



The wisdom of the War Outlawry movement of the 1920s is revived in a new book written by RootsAction campaigner David Swanson, titled "When the World Outlawed War." 

Sincerely,
Aimee, Sarah
and the RootsAction team

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Resources:

Fahrenheit 11-11-11

ReDefining Veterans Day

Veterans for Peace to ring church bells around country at 11:00 for Armistice Day     


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