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Today is Veterans Day, originally noted as Armistice Day (or Remembrance Day)  to commemmorate the end of hostilities on the western front of World War I at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.

Today’s prompt comes from the St. Crispin’s Day speech in Shakespeare’s Henry V, written in 1599:

And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap

You can read the entire speech by clicking the title a few lines above, or hear the it as interpreted by Kenneth Branagh:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yZNMWFqvM[/youtube]

 

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