Thanks to Bubbleman Tom Noddy for posting this:
Today, November 11, 2012, would have been Kurt Vonnegut's 90th birthday. But, what he thought was sacred was the recognition of the end of the First World War on November 11.
Armistice Day. Vonnegut was a war veteran but he didn't care much about Veterans' Day, he continued to celebrate the day by its original name ... Armistice Day.
"When I was a boy ... all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
"It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind."
