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Well, Victor, we've got a lot on the agenda today.

This is the weekend and it's November 11th,

so I was wondering if you had some thoughts on this Veterans Day.

The 11th day of the 11th hour of the 11th month and that was the armist in World War 1 and it was a

great thing to end you know that the meat grinder that killed 17, 18 million Europeans and people in the Middle East as well, but it was an armist

and the German army surrendered inside France and Belgium.

And so there was no comprehensive settlement

from November all the way to the next summer, June, July, August, at the Versailles,

treated by then half the Allies had gone home.

And so Germany never fully accepted the idea they had been beaten soundly and the ingredients

for World War II were established because there was non-conditional surrender, which should

tell us something that the way to end wars is to

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