[Leica] Armistice Day and the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

[j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz)]

Yes, this is Veterans' Day and it takes a new meaning in Europe since the 
2012 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded not to the European Union as such but to 
the efforts Europeans have deployed to put an end to centuries of warfare 
and violence. We still call November 11 "Armistice Day" because, for the 
time being, we want to remember the suffering, the deaths, both civil and 
military, and the destruction that took place during WW1 first between 
France and Germany and which then became global. This is why you will come 
across monuments like this one everywhere in France even in the tiniest of 
villages - here Bruniquel in southern France (d?partement du Tarn). The 
monument you see in the two other pictures is a war memorial dedicated to 
the millions of people who were killed in WW1, WW2 - though it all started 
in 1870 ... 
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