Veterans For Peace
For Immediate Release
Veterans Reclaim Armistice Day in Boston
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Armistice Day Parade and Peace Event
The Boston Chapter of Veterans For Peace, the Smedley D. Butler Brigade will be having their Armistice Day Parade in Boston this Sunday. The parade will begin on the corner of Charles and Boylston Street beginning at 1:15 pm. The parade will circle the Boston Common and proceed to Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Sam Adams Park, where there will be an Armistice Day Peace Event with speakers and music starting at 2:00 pm.
Over 100 local Boston area churches will be ringing their bells at the 11thhour in partnership with Veterans For Peace to celebrate Armistice Day as a Day of Peace.
Veterans For Peace has taken the lead in lifting up the original intention of November 11th – as a day for peace. As veterans we know that a day that celebrates peace, not war, is the best way to honor the sacrifices of veterans. We want generations after us to never know the destruction war has wrought and continues to reek on people and the earth.
On the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, signaling the end of World War 1, the Armistice went into effect. Congress responded to a universal hope among Americans for no more wars by passing a resolution calling for “exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding … inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches with appropriate ceremonies of friendly relations with all other peoples.” Later, Congress added that November 11th was to be “a day dedicated to the cause of world peace.” On June 1, 1954, Congress changed the name of Armistice Day to Veterans Day. This year, on November 11th, Veterans For Peace chapters and their allies all over the country intend to restore the tradition of Armistice Day.
“We want to change the focus of the day from militarism to it’s original intent as a day of peace” stated Dan Luker the Coordinator of the Boston Chapter of Veterans For Peace.
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