Veterans Day

[Trish]

Yes, that's the liberal project (classical and modern). Not many get this.

It's not the liberal project. It's both parties.

I can't do this. Cheers

[Agent Zero]

In honor of all veterans, especially me and my father, a true war hero.

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[Mister D]

It's not the liberal project. It's both parties.

I can't do this. Cheers

That's not what he means by liberal which was actually quite clear.

You sure can't. Cheers.

[Cletus]

I think this is probably a Gurkha Centurion Double Perfecto day.

[Trish]

That's not what he means by liberal which was actually quite clear.

You sure can't. Cheers.

We're in a very partisan time so slapping "liberal" or "conservative" on anything is going to get a gut reaction.

[Standing Wolf]

Not to ever forget the parents, spouses and children of those veterans, who loved and supported them through countless separations and hardships - and sometimes suffered their forever separation and loss.

Shout out to my late father-in-law, Joe. An Ohio native, he became a Marine who fought through the bloodbath of Tarawa, and was badly wounded on Saipan. Not a day goes by that I don't see the shadow box containing his medals and dog tags hanging in the hallway. He settled down in Arizona in the early '50s to become a respected architect and artist, an officer in the Army Reserve, and used to play cards with a young attorney named Bill Rehnquist. A guy who'd seen the worst people could do and came out of it a calm, funny, compassionate man. Semper Fi.

[MMC]

For my Bruthas, Sistas, and Cuzins in the Armed Forces. Especially those who have seen combat and made it back home.

[MMC]

'There isn't a city around that doesn't celebrate': How a Kansas shoe salesman created a holiday to honor all veterans.....


For more than 50 years, Americans who served in the armed forces have been celebrated on Veterans Day thanks to a Kansas shoe salesman.


Al King, a shoe store owner from Emporia, Kansas, spearheaded a 1953 campaign to establish Veterans Day on Armistice Day, commemorating the Nov. 11 end of World War I.


While King himself did not serve, he tried to join the Navy towards the end of World War I when he was 15. Years later, King's nephew, John Cooper, was killed in action in 1944 while serving with the Third U.S. Army in Germany. The bereaved King wanted to create a day celebrating all veterans.


The campaign was picked up by the Emporia Chamber of Commerce, which found that most of the local shop owners were willing to close their doors to honor veterans. On Nov. 11, 1953, the first Veterans Day was celebrated on the streets of Emporia.


King didn’t stop there. He became the general chairman of the All Veterans Day Committee, which was comprised of several veterans groups like the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion.


“He worked with Congressman Ed Rees to get Veterans Day started up, and essentially, they wrote up a bill and they got it passed so that it would be a day to honor all veterans,” William Boyer, research librarian at the Lyon County History Center, told the Washington Examiner.....snip~


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/p...r-all-veterans