Armistice Day today, yay, rhyming

PiptheFair

So today is Veterans day

fuck that

I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things.

So what are you doing for ARMISTICE day other than not getting mail?

Monkeyfeet

I'm going to classes. Nothing is different. Fuck Veteran's Day

Kovak

going to classes

and work

Lockout

Vonnegut was a good guy

what was the reasoning behind changing Armstice Day to Veterans'?

PiptheFair

Lockout wrote: »

Vonnegut was a good guy

what was the reasoning behind changing Armstice Day to Veterans'?

n 1953, an Emporia, Kansas shoe store owner named Al King had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans, not just those who served in World War I. King had been actively involved with the American War Dads during World War II. He began a campaign to turn Armistice Day into "All" Veterans Day. The Emporia Chamber of Commerce took up the cause after determining that 90% of Emporia merchants as well as the Board of Education supported closing their doors on November 11, 1953, to honor veterans. With the help of then-U.S. Rep. Ed Rees, also from Emporia, a bill for the holiday was pushed through Congress. President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law on May 26, 1954.[3]

Staleghoti

Rememberance



in other news I was by the War Monument today, some cool whizz jets flew over it was pretty BA.

then a choir was singing and they shot off a cannon a bunch of times, then I realized it was really crowded and stated thinking about how many people were sick so I left promptly.

Didn't get to see prince charles unfortunately

Lockout

PiptheFair wrote: »

Lockout wrote: »

Vonnegut was a good guy

what was the reasoning behind changing Armstice Day to Veterans'?

n 1953, an Emporia, Kansas shoe store owner named Al King had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans, not just those who served in World War I. King had been actively involved with the American War Dads during World War II. He began a campaign to turn Armistice Day into "All" Veterans Day. The Emporia Chamber of Commerce took up the cause after determining that 90% of Emporia merchants as well as the Board of Education supported closing their doors on November 11, 1953, to honor veterans. With the help of then-U.S. Rep. Ed Rees, also from Emporia, a bill for the holiday was pushed through Congress. President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law on May 26, 1954.[3]

just goes to show that in this, as in most things, one can safely blame Kansas

Nuzak

had my two minutes silence

some foreign language students from china didn't understand i don;t think and they kept talking

Monkeyfeet

No they understood. They were just commie bastards

Weaver

I'm a veteran can I have a job please

Kovak

my dad's a veteran

i get paid to go to school

unintentional

my grandfather was a veteran
that's all I got

Weaver

my dad, my grandfather, and my great-grandfather are/were vets

purely circumstance we hold no kind of military tradition

Zoel

got the day off

woohoo

va.gov was supposed to have a new front page but it decided to be an analogy instead

Scribemite

My Dad's a Vietnam Vet. He got a bullet in his ankle and problems walking for the rest of his life and me and my sister got shit.

Fuck World War One, by the way.

Harrier

My grandfather was a prisoner of war in World War II

The Germans used to make him play Russian Roulette

Bad-Beat

Scribemite wrote: »

My Dad's a Vietnam Vet. He got a bullet in his ankle and problems walking for the rest of his life and me and my sister got shit.

Fuck World War One, by the way.

No, fuck you.

Zoel

I don't really understand the hostility towards celebrating veterans in general to include veterans from other conflicts.

Weaver

Mr. Ferdinand, tear down this mustache!

Zoel

on a related note what happened to casper

He was posting when I showed up here and then he stopped one day

unintentional

I was thinking about playing The Last Post at 11:11 but decided that a lot of my neighbours were probably sleeping.

Bad-Beat

Didn't he get banned for not sending a secret satan gift?

Zoel

Well that answers that question

Sara Lynn

On my way to work, unlike some of you lazy jerks.

My grandpa did get a purple heart in WW2, I think. We were never close so I don't know.

Scribemite

Bad-Beat wrote: »

Scribemite wrote: »

My Dad's a Vietnam Vet. He got a bullet in his ankle and problems walking for the rest of his life and me and my sister got shit.

Fuck World War One, by the way.

No, fuck you.

Hence, the cause of the war.

Cold Salmon and Hatred

went to the national war memorial, dropped a poppy on the unknown soldiers tomb

definitely a bit bigger than the ceremony back home

Shoggoth

I will forever remember this somber of days by the ooooooooold vets they would sometimes bring to talk at our highschool.

Mostly they would talk about "gooks" and "krauts". They were very racist bitter old men.

EDIT: My grandfather flew bombers in WWII. We actually just found his journal in an old box in our garage recently. I wish there were more entries.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Having an entire country try to kill you will do that.

Shoggoth

It was actually quite sad.

Zoel

When one of my grand fathers died we found a bunch of nazi Medals in his stuff and we were all huh that's weird why would grandpa have nazi stuff I mean he fought at the battle of the bulge and landed at normandy and oh.

oh that's how he got them.

Scribemite

Shoggoth wrote: »

I will forever remember this somber of days by the ooooooooold vets they would sometimes bring to talk at our highschool.

Mostly they would talk about "gooks" and "krauts". They were very racist bitter old men.

EDIT: My grandfather flew bombers in WWII. We actually just found his journal in an old box in our garage recently. I wish there were more entries.

Had a talk with some German veterans from WWII. Their perspective was ... interesting.

vsove

I went to the Remembrance Day ceremonies this morning. Had my two minutes of silence, came home, and am now spending the rest of the day at home.

Harrier

Zoel wrote: »

When one of my grand fathers died we found a bunch of nazi Medals in his stuff and we were all huh that's weird why would grandpa have nazi stuff I mean he fought at the battle of the bulge and landed at normandy and oh.

oh that's how he got them.

Killin' Gnatzis!

Pharezon

Cold Salmon and Hatred

visiting Vimy Ridge was incredible

I highly recommend it to anyone who can afford it, it's a really beautiful memorial

Bad-Beat

Today is also a good day to watch Blackadder Goes Forth.

Meissnerd

I had one great uncle who was a Dambuster in Germany, and my Opa had a Nazi officer uncle! My Opa apparently saved a Jewish man from being shot in the woods.

MrMonroe

I uh

I got up at 7 to move my car even though I didn't have to because there's no street sweeping on veteran's day for armistice day

Grey Ghost

Grandfather on my mom's side was in the Army in WWII but I really don't know much about what he did; we have his old trench gun up in the attic and it's pretty badass

Dad was an Army Ranger in Vietnam and apparently just kicked ass left and right

He has two Bronze Stars but won't tell us what for and the online registries for that sort of thing only go back to about a couple years after the time he was there so I can't look it up

Richard M. Nixon

I went down to the cenotaph for the couple minutes' silence. There was some dude who looked to be in his late 60s with a poppy on his hat (supposed to be on your lapel/jacket someplace in the vicinity of your heart) who didn't take his hat off for the silence and also talked through it. I was kind of unimpressed by that.

Hunter

Richard M. Nixon wrote: »

I went down to the cenotaph for the couple minutes' silence. There was some dude who looked to be in his late 60s with a poppy on his hat (supposed to be on your lapel/jacket someplace in the vicinity of your heart) who didn't take his hat off for the silence and also talked through it. I was kind of unimpressed by that.

Guy is lucky my father wasn't present. I believe last year he threatened to rip out some guy's throat because he was chatting on a cell phone during the American Legion thing they were doing at a local war memorial. Best part is he's a legion officer, so it's encouraged for him to be pissed off at rude people.