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“Bells Screamed all off key, wrangling together as they collided in midair, horns and whistles mingled shrilly with cries of human distress; sulphur-colored light ex-ploded through the black windowpane and flashed away in darkness. Miranda waking from a dreamless sleep asked without expecting an answer, “What is happening?” for there was a bustle of voices and footsteps in the corridor, and a sharpness in the air; the far clamour went on, a furious exasperated shrieking like a mob in revolt. The light came on, and Miss Tanner said in a furry voice, “Hear that? They’re celebrating . It’s the Armistice. The war is over, my dear.” Her hands trembled. She rattled a spoon in a cup, stopped to listen, held the cup out to Miranda. From the ward for old bedridden women down the hall floated a ragged chorus of cracked voices singing, “My country, ’tis of thee…” Sweet land… oh terrible land of this bitter world where the sound of rejoicing was a clamour of pain, where ragged tuneless old women, sitting up waiting for their evening bowl of cocoa, were singing, “Sweet land of Liberty-” “Oh, say, can you see?” their hopeless voices were asking next, the hammer strokes of metal tongues drowning them out. “The war is over,” said Miss Tanner, her underlap held firmly, her eyes blurred. Miranda said, “Please open the window, please, I smell death in here.”

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Book:Pale Horse, Pale Rider
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“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.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut
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“Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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“The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.”

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Author:Arthur Koestler
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“The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.”

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Author:Jeff Miller
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“Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne
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“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”

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Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
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“When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time.”

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Author:Neal A. Maxwell
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“Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.”

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Book:Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!
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“The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There’s no such thing as intelligent vanity. It’s an instinct. And you’ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.”

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Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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“I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"”

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Author:Eve Merriam
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“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?”

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Book:Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems
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“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”

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Author:Dick Cheney
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“But the freedom that they fought for, and the country grand they wrought for, Is their monument to-day, and for aye.”

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Book:The Boy's Book of Battle-lyrics: A Collection of Verses Illustrating Some Notable Events in the History of the United States of America, from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Sectional War
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“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”

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Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.”

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Author:Audre Lorde
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“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”

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Author:Elmer Davis
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“To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.”

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Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson
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“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”

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Author:Maya Angelou
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