Die voorstel op die tafel, van my kant af, is dat ons rondom die komende Herdenkingsdag saamtrek nie net ons gesneuwelde makkers herdenk nie, maar ook ernstig saam besin oor die oorlewendes wie ledemate verloor het en liggaamlik of geestelik skade gely het as gevolg van hulle getroue diens aan volk en vaderland. Onder andere oor wat ons kan doen om hulle meer en beter te help as wat huidiglik onder ons omstandighede moontlik is. Terwyl ons daaroor dink, kan ons ook weereens kyk na die wereldwye tradisie rondom 11 November kyk. Waspenstilstandsdag, nou algemeen aanvaar as Herdenkingsdag (Remembrance Day). n Tradisie waarin Suid-Afrika, ons gewese Ou Suid-Afrika van die Oranje-Blanje-Blou, ook n prominente rol speel. Dit is wat op Wikipedia staan: Armistice Day (which coincides with Remembrance Day and Veterans Day...) is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven oclock in the morning—the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918.... The date was declared a national holiday in many allied nations (including our Old South Africa), to commemorate those members of the armed forces who were killed during war... Most countries changed the name of the holiday after World War II, to honor veterans of that and subsequent conflicts. Most member states of the Commonwealth of Nations adopted the name Remembrance Day, while the United States chose All Veterans Day (later shortened to Veterans Day) to explicitly honor military veterans, including those participating in other conflicts.... In many parts of the world, people observe a moment of silence at 11:00 a.m. local time as a sign of respect in the first minute for the roughly 20 million people who died in the war, and in the second minute dedicated to the living left behind, generally understood to be wives, children and families left behind but deeply affected by the conflict.... From the outset, many veterans in many countries have also used silence to pay homage to departed comrades... Similar ceremonies developed in other countries during the inter-war period. In South Africa, for example, the Memorable Order of Tin Hats had by the late 1920s developed a ceremony whereby the toast of Fallen Comrades was observed not only in silence but darkness, all except for the Light of Remembrance, with the ceremony ending with the Order’s anthem Old Soldiers Never Die. ... ... After the end of World War II, most Armistice Day events were moved to the nearest Sunday and began to commemorate both World Wars. The change was made in many Commonwealth countries, as well as Britain, and the new commemoration was named Remembrance Sunday or Remembrance Day. In the U.S., .... Veterans Day honors all American veterans, whether living, dead in action, or deceased from other causes. The official national remembrance of war dead is instead Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, from the practice of decorating the graves of soldiers, which originated in the years immediately following the American Civil War. - Foto van die Amerikaanse Marinier soldaat Andrew Kinard, terwyl hy terapie ondergaan by die Walter Reed Hospitaal.
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