At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month we take two minutes silence to remember the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, the end of World War One, effective at 11am, 90 years ago today.
So many died that we might have freedom. As Churchill said:
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.”
We owe those who fell our commitment to oppose tyranny and affronts to liberty in whatever guise such affronts may cross our path in our day.
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
Did you do the same in 2011? I cannot find a blog post, perhaps you have forgotten and moved onto ‘more important things?’
Whether we remember once or many times every commemoration is to honour both those who fell and the reason they died.
My Dad’s brother was killed in the battle of the Somme, he was only 18.
So you are like 90 years old?