Reclaim Armistice Day 2025

Until “Never Again” means Never Again — for Anyone, Anywhere.

The Day the Guns Fell Silent

On November 11, 1918, the guns fell silent.
The “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” marked a global sigh of relief, and a promise: War No More.

Armistice Day was meant to remind future generations of the cost of empire and the necessity of peace.

How Peace Was Erased

In 1954, Congress renamed Armistice Day to Veterans Day — transforming a day for peace into one that glorifies war.
A day meant to end all wars became a billboard for endless ones, draped in flags and defense contracts.

That erasure serves the same interests that erase truth everywhere, from Palestine to our own communities.

Who Benefits from Erasure

The beneficiaries of war are easy to find.
The same corporations arming Israel’s genocide of Palestinians build the surveillance tools used by ICE and police to terrorize our own communities.
The same billion-dollar prison companies that cage migrants profit from the wars that displace them.

Militarism abroad and militarism at home are one system.
Every drone strike has its mirror image in every ICE raid and act of state violence against Black, Brown, queer, Indigenous, or immigrant lives.

What Armistice Day Must Mean Now

If Armistice Day once promised peace, today it demands resistance.

Veterans For Peace calls on all veterans and allies to reclaim Armistice Day as a day of truth and defiance.
Let us honor not only the dead of past wars but the living who still suffer under empire:
Palestinians facing genocide, Latin Americans facing U.S. intervention, Indigenous nations defending their lands, migrants fleeing U.S.-backed violence, LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities fighting for dignity, and service members who dare to question unlawful orders.

This November 11: Take Action

• Stand in coalition with peace and justice groups — even when messages differ.

• Join VETS SAY NO actions across the country.

• Expose the links between foreign wars and domestic repression.

• Say: NO RACIST ICE OR TROOPS IN OUR STREETS.

• Say: NO MORE GENOCIDE IN GAZA.

• Say: NO WAR ON VENEZUELA Resist U.S. intervention in Latin America.

• Support war resisters and whistleblowers.

• Ring the bells 11 times for peace. Hold vigils, write op-eds, fly the VFP flag, and demand:

  
  Ceasefire Everywhere. End All Occupations.

Our Oath and Our Promise

As veterans, we swore to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Today, that means resisting fascism in every form and standing with the oppressed until the guns fall silent and true justice prevails.