Don’t waste our veterans’ sacrifices

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the guns that began to roar in August 1914 finally fell silent. The Great War, which took the lives of some 17 million people, including more than 116,000 Americans, was over.
One of the first wars to see the majority of its deaths come as a result of combat rather than disease, a celebration of the end of the greatest carnage that had befallen the world to that point was conceived in Armistice Day.
However, the armistice of the “