On November 11, 1918, the guns finally fell silent. The “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” marked a global sigh of relief and a promise: War No More. Armistice Day was meant to remind future generations of the cost of empire and the necessity of peace.

In the United States, that meaning was later erased. In 1954 Congress renamed it Veterans Day, shifting the focus from ending war to glorifying it. A day of peace became a billboard for endless wars and the corporations that profit from them. That erasure serves the same interests that erase truth everywhere—from Palestine to our own communities.

The beneficiaries are easy to find. The same weapons manufacturers and security firms arming Israel’s genocide of Palestinians build the surveillance tech used by ICE and police to terrorize immigrants and poor communities here at home.

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