Lemming Tracks: Armistice/National/Poppy/Rembrance/Veterans Day

Today is Armistice Day, National Day, Poppy Day, Rembrance Day, Veterans Day, or just another day in November: depending on where you live, and how you see the world. I'm an America citizen, so many folks I know call it Veterans Day.

I think it's a significant day, for a variety of reasons, and have posted about that sort of thing before. Several times:

• "Armistice Day/Veterans Day, 2010: a Couple of Words for the American Military, and Something Lincoln Said"
  Another War-on-Terror Blog (November 11, 2010)
• "Armistice Day, 2008: Or, if You Prefer, Veterans Day"
  Another War-on-Terror Blog (November 11, 2008)
• "The Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month: Yeah, It's Kind of Important"
  (November 11, 2009)
• "Armistice Day, 2007"
  Another War-on-Terror Blog (November 11, 2007)

I may be back with another post today, or not. Here in the non-virtual world, I've had quite a few distractions. And that's another topic.

The Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month: Yeah, It's Kind of Important

"Armistice Day, 2008, or Veterans Day, or National Day..."
Apathetic Lemming of the North (November 11, 2008)

"It's Armistice Day, or Veterans Day, or National Day, or Remembrance Day - or, it's just November 11, 2008. It depends on where you live...."

I'd do something fresh this year, but that's not going to happen. I'm still getting over whatever it is I've got, so instead: here's some of what I've written about the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in previous years:

• "Armistice Day, 2008: Or, if You Prefer, Veterans Day"
  Another War-on-Terror Blog (November 11, 2008)
• "Armistice Day / Veterans Day"
  Apathetic Lemming of the North (November 11, 2007)

Armistice Day, 2008, or Veterans Day, or National Day...

It's Armistice Day, or Veterans Day, or National Day, or Remembrance Day - or, it's just November 11, 2008. It depends on where you live.

I got a little serious about 11/11, last year ("Armistice Day / Veterans Day " (November 11, 2007)), and in "Armistice Day, 2008: Or, if You Prefer, Veteran's Day (Another War-on-Terror Blog (November 11, 2008)).

Armistice Day / Veterans Day

It's Armistice Day today, or "Veterans Day," as we've taken to calling it. Although things haven't gone quite as people expected in 1918, the eleventh day of November is still a good time to stop and think. On the Web:

• "Honor Flights Say 'Thank You' to Vets" at military.com.
• "Sauk Centre this Season / Armistice Day" on my flagship website, brendans-island.com.

I'll repeat the quote I use in that last item:

"Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared to the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good."
Abraham Lincoln, Response to a serenade, November 10, 1864.