Nightline Closing Thought Nov. 11, 2003
W A S H I N G T O N, Nov. 11 -- This being Veterans Day, there was a small ceremony out at ArlingtonCemetery this afternoon, honoring the fallen from the 3rd InfantryDivision.
Since we were with the 3rd ID in Iraq last spring, a coupleof us went out to pay our respects. We ran into a few of our friends butmost of the men out there were veterans of World War II and the Korean War.
The 3rd Infantry Division is known as the rock of the Marne, in honor ofits performance during a brutal and enormously costly battle at that placeduring the World War I.
One of the veterans at Arlington this afternoon movingly recalled that this date, Nov. 11, was known as Armistice Day before it was called VeteransDay.
The armistice ending World War I was signed at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. Thatwas supposed to mark the end of the war to end all wars.
As that veteran today reminded us, it didn't, of course. It hasn't. Perhaps our veteransare too conscious of the sacrifice that they and their dead comrades made.But it's too bad we don't hear from those old soldiers before we go to war.
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