Kurt Vonnegut on Veteran's Day

Kurt Vonnegut on Veteran's Day vs 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, and when Dwayne Hoover 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 ele…