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Eleven Days Left in 2013

Eleven days left in 2013!
Eleven days until 2014
passes through the calender's birth canal.

2014 an auspicious year!
The 100^th anniversary
of World War I.1

World War I
the great war to end all wars,
how do we remember
and pay homage
to the soldiers,
the poets,
and the veterans
of the war that began
a century of wars.

We who were born in the 20^th century
have never known a world without war;
we dream of peace,
we pray for peace,
we work for peace,
and we live in a world at war.

We live in a world at war,
with itself,
a world fighting because
of secular
and religious differences;
a world that doesn't see,
despite the minor difference
humanity is a single species.

These wars will end,
humanity will come through this Armageddon
that began on the battlefields of World War I;
humanity will survive
and unite,
but until it does
we can't give up hope
or stop working for peace
while remembering
the veterans.

Food for Thought" “In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.” - Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

Footnotes
1  http://www.greatwar.co.uk/events/2014-2018-ww1-centenary-events.htm