Celebrating peace: A work in progress
by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency
Nov 14, 2019
3 minutes
Veterans For Peace, an organization that speaks truth to war like nobody else, is attempting to reclaim Armistice Day, the Nov. 11 holiday that was flipped on its head 65 years ago when it was renamed Veterans Day -- and became a celebration not of the end of war but of its perpetuity.
The name change occurred in 1954. The Korean War had recently "ended," the Cold War and the nuclear arms race were seriously revving up and, of course, that other world war, nine years past, was still vividly a part
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