Until Never Again Means Never Again for Anyone
From Erasure to Resistance
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.
Who Benefits from Erasure
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. The same billion-dollar prison corporations running detention camps profit from wars and occupations abroad. Militarism overseas and militarism at home are one system. Every drone strike has its mirror image in every ICE raid, no-knock warrant, and act of state violence against Black, Brown, queer, Indigenous, or immigrant lives.
We must resist fascism at home as well as abroad!
What Armistice Day Must Mean Now
Veterans For Peace calls on all veterans and allies to reclaim Armistice Day as a day of truth and resistance. Let us honor not only the dead of past wars but the living who still suffer under empire: Palestinians facing genocide, Latin Americans facing U.S. intervention, Indigenous nations defending their lands, migrants fleeing U.S.-backed violence, LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities fighting for dignity, and service members who dare to question unlawful orders.
This November 11:
- Stand in coalition with peace and justice groups—even when messages differ. Bring VFP’s anti-war, anti-empire voice.
- Participate in VETS SAY NO actions taking place in scores of cities.
- Expose the links between foreign wars and domestic repression.
- Say NO RACIST ICE OR TROOPS IN OUR STREETS
- Say NO MORE GENOCIDE IN GAZA
- Say NO WAR ON VENEZUELA – Resist U.S. Intervention in Latin America!
- SUPPORT WAR RESISTERS and whistleblowers.
- Ring the bells 11 times for peace. Hold vigils, write op-eds, fly the VFP flag, and demand: Ceasefire Everywhere. End ALL Occupations.
Our Oath and Our Promise
As veterans, we swore to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Today, that means resisting fascism in every form and standing with the oppressed until the guns fall silent and true justice prevails.
Until “Never Again” means Never Again—for Anyone, Anywhere.