My Dad's Silver Dollars
Tomorrow is Veterans Day, which used to be known as Armistice Day. It was a day to celebrate peace -- 11/11/1918 marked the end of World War I. But of course it's become a day to celebrate veterans, but we already have Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, etc. There's even a "National Day of the Deployed," as in troops deployed overseas, which occurred this year on Oct. 26th.
11/11 should be a day to celebrate the end of war. A day to mark the promise of peace. That's what my dad's silver dollars were all about in the 1920s.
It's high time "peace" became a thing again.