Editorial November 11, 2002 Issue

A day of remembrance and assurance

Editor

Depending on where you live in the world, you may know November 11 as Veterans Day, Armistice Day, Victory Day, Independence Day, or Remembrance Day. It was on this day in 1918 that the guns on the Western Front in Europe fell silent after more than four years of continual battle. The armistice signed that morning brought to a close the "war to end all wars."

The conflict, now known as World War I, was ignited by the actions of a single assassin and spread until all the powers of Europe and much of the rest of the world were engulfed in its flames.

The world situation today is strained and tenuous, as it was then. But things may not be as fragile or precarious as they seem, and we have every reason to be hopeful as well as alert.

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