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I feel similar to you but what I think he was saying is that Armistice Day was a celebration of peace, the thing veterans fight for, after four years of unprecedented slaughter. The moment of silence and the initial clarity or God speaking to humanity is forgotten by making it a blanket holiday for soldiers. He can throw Veterans' Day over his shoulder and Armistice Day remains sacred because essentially we've forgotten why it was so transcendent that the fighting stopped and twenty years later it started again, worse than before. We never learned the lesson. Kurt Vonnegut did but witnessing the firebombing of Dresden probably helped him.