Armistice Day

The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me to be special.  Even if the reason for it fell apart as the years went on, it was a symbol of something close to the high part of the heart.  Perhaps a life that stretches through two or three wars takes its first war rather seriously, but I still think we should have kept the name "Armistice Day."  Its implications were a little more profound, a little more hopeful.

-- Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973), American animator and cartoonist, creator of the Pogo comic strip, Ten Everlovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo (1959), p. 100