Ndi Jack Gilroy, November 2, 2018
kuchokera Syracuse.com
Zaka zana zapitazo Nov. 11, Nkhondo Yaikuru, Nkhondo Yadziko Yonse, inatha. Anthu padziko lonse lapansi adakondwera ndikukondwerera kutha kwa nkhondo, nthawi yolengeza mtendere. Chaka chotsatira, 1919, tsikulo linadziwika ngati Tsiku la Armistice. Silidali tsiku lokondwerera nkhondo ndi ankhondo koma tsiku loti likhale pamtendere.
Maboma a Britain ndi Germany akupereka pempho lapaderakumadera osiyanasiyana padziko lapansi kuti ayimbire tchalitchi chawo ndi mabelu ena palimodzi pa 11 ndiri pa Tsiku la Armistice, Nov. 11, 2018, kuwonetsera zaka zana limodzi za kutha kwa kuphedwa koopsa.
Yakwana nthawi yoti Achimereka achite kulandila Tsiku la Armistice.
Mu 1954, tidasiya dzina loti "Armistice Day" ndipo tidayamba "Tsiku la Omenyera Nkhondo." Tasintha tsiku lopatulika loyamika ndi tsiku lopatsa ulemu ankhondo. Chimenecho sichinali cholinga cha omenyera nkhondo yoyamba yapadziko lonse lapansi. Omenyera nkhondo sanasangalale ndi mfuti komanso matope ozungulirazungulira matupi achichepere, mpweya wa mpiru wowotcha mapapu ndi khungu lotentha, kutha kwa mfuti yamakina ikuwombera mozungulira ma 450 pamphindi, zida zaimfa monga akasinja, ndi ndege zankhondo zomwe zidapha mamiliyoni ku Empire. Anthu adalira asitikali omwe anali osauka komanso ogwira ntchito omwe adalembedwa kapena kukopeka ndi mabodza ndi mabodza.
Tsiku la Armistice litalengezedwa patatha chaka chimodzi nkhondo itatha, anthu adayamba kumvetsetsa kuti kukhetsa mwazi sikunali kwa kulimba mtima kapena ulemu kapena mendulo kapena ntchito, koma mphamvu ndi ndalama. Ku United States kokha, mamiliyoni ambiri atsopano okwana 15,000 anapangidwa posakhalitsa kutenga nawo mbali pankhondo yaku Europe. Republican Herbert Hoover, director of the Food Administration m'boma la Democrat Woodrow Wilson, adafotokoza mwachidule izi ponena kuti: "Akuluakulu amenya nkhondo koma ndi achinyamata omwe amamenya nkhondo ndi kufa." Akadatha kuwonjezeranso "omwe amamenyera nkhondo ndikufera mabodza a anthu olemera komanso otchuka."
Rory Fanning, yemwe kale anali asilikali a US Army Ranger ndi zigawo ziwiri ku Afghanistan ndi Iraq, lalemba: "Zimamveka bwino ndikudutsa chaka chilichonse kuti Tsiku la Omenyera Nkhondo silinena zambiri za kulemekeza omenyera nkhondo koma ndikungofuna kupeputsa chikumbumtima cha omwe adatumiza ena kupha ndi kufa pazifukwa zomwe sizikugwirizana kwenikweni ndi demokalase komanso ufulu."
Kurt Vonnegut, m'modzi mwa olemba athu akulu aku America, adakhala pamavuto a Nkhondo Yachiwiri Yapadziko Lonse ngati mwana waku US waku Europe. Wotchulidwa mu "Breakfast Breakfast of Champions" ya Vonnegut akuti: "Tsiku la Armistice lakhala Tsiku la Omenyera Nkhondo. Tsiku la Armistice linali lopatulika. Tsiku la Veterans ayi. Chifukwa chake, ndiponyera Tsiku la Veterans paphewa langa. Tsiku la Armistice ndilisunga. Sindikufuna kutaya zinthu zopatulika zilizonse. Tsiku la Veterans limakondwerera 'ngwazi' ndipo limalimbikitsa kupita kukapha ndi kuphedwa pankhondo ina mtsogolo - kapena nkhondo yathu yapano. ”
Ankhondo a Mtendere wa Boma la Broome akufuna kulandira tsiku la Armistice. Gulu lathu lapempha mipingo yonse ku Binghamton kuti imve mabelu awo ku 11 ndi Lamlungu, Nov. 11, kukumbukira tsiku la 100th la nkhondo yoyamba ya padziko lonse. Tikukulimbikitsani mipingo ya ku Syracuse kuti ikhale nafe poimba mabelu awo nthawi 11 pa ola la 11th Tsiku la 11th la mwezi wa 11th.
Ankhondo a Mtendere www.veteransforpeace.org imalimbikitsa mipingo yonse ya America ndi mabelu kuti athandize asilikali amtendere kubwezeretsa tsiku la Armistice. Tiyeni tisangalale mapeto a nkhondo, osati ankhondo.
Pa 1 masana Lamlungu, Nov. 11, Veterans for Peace ku Binghamton adzapereka zikondwerero za Armistice Day poppies kuti aziwonetsa owonerera (za tsiku la Veterans Day) monga kukumbukira kuopsa kwa nkhondo zonse. Tsiku lomwelo, pa udzu wa First Congregational Church, pakhomo la Main ndi Front, Binghamton, Stu Naismith Chapter Veterans for Peace adzakhala ndi manda akuwonetsera zakufa kwa nkhondo ya Vietnam ndi Iraq / Afghanistan nkhondo. Chiŵerengero cha anthu akufa ku America kwa anthu akufa a Vietnamese, Iraq ndi Afghanistan amapezeka m'manda a miyala yamanda.
Tiyenera kumvetsa kuipa kwaumunthu kwa nkhondo kutilepheretsa kuti tisamenye nkhondo.
