Veterans' Day -- 2008

At the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the fighting stopped in Western Europe. The Great War, the "war to end all wars", did not end wars at all. The War that began a mere 30 years later was on such a scale that its predecessor had to be renamed -- World War I. The killing and carnage of the First "world war" proved insufficient to preclude the killing and carnage of the Second -- or of the dozens of wars that have ensued around the world since 1945. Will we ever kill our penchant for killing?