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Veterans Day, like so many other traditions we cherish and respect in the United States, has its origins across the seas. “Armistice Day” is the historical name for the honoring of the fallen on Nov. 11 – it was on that day 106 years ago that the peace treaty was signed between the Allied and Central Powers, and 11:00 a.m. that day marked the end of World War I.
In our history class weeks ago, we looked at each other in dumb shock when we heard that the History Department graduate program was being scrapped. It seemed unreal that a field so synonymous with liberal arts was losing its own graduate program, more disturbingly as a matter of cost-control.
One of the most intriguing and intense elections in our country’s history has come to Miami University. If the news cycle and online buzz have not been enough to notice, the posters, pollsters, signs and banners on almost every block in and around town promoting Republicans and Democrats surely have been.
War has raged for a year in the Holy Land. Over 40,000 Palestinian civilians in Gaza are dead, half of them being children. Around 100 Israeli hostages remain in captivity. The land of Gaza has been decimated by the indiscriminate bombing and invasion of the territory by Israeli forces aided by American arms. The thousand fatalities from the Islamist Hamas government’s unprecedented and brutal raid against Israeli civilians may be the first of many, as tensions escalate between Israel and the various Iranian client groups encircling it. These are the facts of the conflict half a world away and on our doorstep.