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I've always wished the United States had kept Armistice Day as our national holiday. I think during the 1950s they thought that celebrating an end to war was some kind of Communist plot to take over America. Or something like that. They changed the War Department to the Defense Department. They put the words "under God" into the "pledge of allegiance". And they changed the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day. Took away Paul Robeson and other people's passports. Blacklisted Blacklisted and blacklisted some more. ...and still....

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