ANOTHER Veterans Day

Armistice Day

Remembrance Day

VETERANS DAY

Thank you
For doing your time.
For offering your life.
For guarding our freedom.

Today we honor and remember the sacrifice and service of ALL our country's veterans -- those who served in wars and during peace time. Because of them, our grateful nation enjoys a future free of fear. So far, more than 1,100 American military members have died and thousands injured in the current war on terrorism.

It was in 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month, that the world rejoiced and celebrated. After four years of bitter war, an armistice was signed. The "war to end all wars" (WW I) was over. Armistice Day officially received its name in America in 1926 through a Congressional resolution. It became a national holiday 12 years later by similar Congressional action. Realizing that peace was equally preserved by veterans of WW II and Korea, Congress was requested to make this day an occasion to honor those who have served America in all wars.

In 1953, townspeople in Emporia, Kansas called the holiday Veterans Day in gratitude to the veterans in their town. Soon after, Congress passed a bill introduced by a Kansas congressman renaming the federal holiday to Veterans Day. Beginning in 1954, the United States designated November 11 as Veterans Day to honor veterans of all U.S. wars. In 1954 President Eisenhower signed a bill proclaiming November 11 as Veterans Day.

A crazy Democratic law passed in 1968 changed the national commemoration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. It soon became apparent, however, that November 11 was a date of historic significance to many Americans. (1971 President Nixon declared it a federal holiday on the second Monday in November.) And in 1978 Congress officially returned this observance to its traditional and proper date.

Thank you, American Veterans, for defending our virtues and freedoms once again. Patriots can be proud and especially thankful this Veterans Day for standing united and repudiating the worse jack-ass who ever sought our nation's highest office. With shades of Judas & Benedict Arnold, he was the most disgraceful character to enter the political arena in my lifetime. (And his pathetic supporters are the worse sore losers I've ever encountered.) GOOD RIDDANCE to John Kerry who dishonored his Church and country. ....May God have mercy on his soul.

Their Veterans’ Day

Some said let you apologize
But that wouldn’t do it in our eyes.
A man astride of each position
Could we believe your true contrition?
And on deaf ears your words would fall
To those whose names are on that Wall
The vindication they now accept
In settling up this long-held debt,
Is that for them we gave our best
And denied you, John, your lifelong quest.
We fought for them, fought for our own,
To make you reap what you had sown.
Listen carefully John to what we say,
November 2nd was their Veterans’ Day!

Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66

Library of Congress Veterans History Project "Voices of War"
Vietnam Veterans of America (To Whom I dedicate this blog)
Disabled American Veterans
White House WW II Memorial
WW II on the Web
The Gulf War Operation Desert Storm