Peace! Peace! Anybody want peace?

Soldiers on both sides were ordered to end the Christmas Truce of 1914 by officers far from the front lines.  During that brief period of unauthorized peace the soldiers had put down their rifles and traded

chocolates, cigarettes, and photographs from home, these sons and fathers far away from families of their own,  

Oh, soon daylight stole upon us and France was France once more;
with sad farewells, we each began to settle back to war,
but the question haunted every heart that lived that wondrous night
“Whose family have I fixed within my sights?” 

-- John McCutcheon, "Christmas in the Trenches" 

We no longer ask that question, since to answer it would be a threat to "national security."  All we do is glorify and express thanks to the troops for the killing service they're doing "over there, somewhere."

Changing the “War No More” Sentiment of Armistice Day to the War-Glorifying Propaganda of Veterans Day by Gary G. Kohls, MD