h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Here's a quote from Kurt Vonnegut about Armistice Day:

'I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy...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.'

In 1918, US poet Sara Teasdale wrote:

'There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

'And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;

'Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

'And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

'Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;

'And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.'

And Ernest Hemingway, who saw that war:

'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkKEynoTwp8

It's only been a hundred years http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxkhBvO8_kM

F S

"1st World War, the war to end all wars"
Unfortunately world peace is a total illusion while mankind is on the planet
The reasons are many-fold and the answers are non existent

BUT! Never stop hoping that "hatred" might one day be banished between all races on this world