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With due respect for all veterans on Veterans' Day, for many it is still "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" that freed a nation from the toils of a conflict that forever changed a nation. The fact that there would be more consuming conflicts in the decades to come and more veterans thus produced only underscores the importance of lessons unlearned on Armistice Day.
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