Guest Post by 4th Turner
Yesterday Veteran’s Day fell on the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, the cessation of war on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918.
It’s been quite a long stretch of time since that Armistice Day, and now in the United States we have the better part of 20 million veterans, which is incidentally about the number of total casualties in World War I.
40 years ago, veterans made up about 18 percent of the US population, but that has dropped to only about 7% of today’s countrymen. The demographics will continue to shift radically in the coming decades.
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