I wanted to get this blog out to all those that celebrate Veteran's Day / Armistice Day / Remembrance Day in the US and Europe. In Germany it called "Volkstrauertag" which is "people's mourning day", but it isn't celebrated, and usually it does not occur on 11 November.
In the Great War, Germany suffered over 7 million military casualties. And 11 November 1918 is when Germany surrendered. Nearly all, if not all, villages have memorials for the war dead from the Great War and World War II. In our village the memorial is at the catholic cemetery, and on Friday some people were cleaning it up.
