Armistice Day This Saterday

The following clips feature members of Veterans for Peace speaking about Remembrance.

They were filmed for the upcoming documentary film War School. An extended trailer of War School will be shown at their Annual General Meeting this Saturday.

In their own words:

Veterans For Peace UK, is a voluntary, open and democratic ex-services organisation of men and women. All of our members have served in the armed forces, many of us on operations around the world. Our oldest members fought in WW2 and our youngest members in Afghanistan. As a result of our collective experience we firmly believe that “War is not the solution to the problems we face in the 21st century”.

We are not a pacifist organisation, we believe that we should be capable of defending our islands against foreign attack. We work toward increasing public awareness of the cost of war and to restrain our government from intervening in the internal affairs of other nations, for the larger purpose of world peace.

Image: England and Germany to wear black armbands bearing poppies at Wembley, Friday.

Armistice Day is celebrated on November 11 each year, and this year it falls on a Saturday. Armistice Day, marks the day the armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany that brought the end of WWI.

ABC Note: 'A Bayonet is a weapon with a worker at both ends', was a familiar WW1 saying.