Happy Armistice day. All the terms had been agreed on in early October and the 'Great War' could have ended then, but the French felt that the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month would be more dramatic so they insisted that the fighting go on for no good reason.
I'm not sure why they decided to change the name of this day instead of using D day, VE day or VJ day to honor those who have given of their lives to defend the world from the bad guy. Even those who served in relatively peaceful times have made a sacrifice to keep evil at bay. No, it wasn't for the money, that is for sure. When I was in Germany ready to stop the commy hoards from pouring across the iron curtain and rebuilding trucks to be sent to some small country nobody ever heard of in the far east, I was getting a place to (try to) sleep, all I could stand to eat and a whopping $109.90 a month. we did get to go camping out a lot though, being a STRAC (Army equivalent to SAC) outfit, we had random practice alerts at least once a month. The only ones who knew for certain that they were practice were the demolition crew who would set out blocks of wood instead of TNT in the buildings.
