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Armistice Day today, yay, rhyming
PiptheFair
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So today is Veterans day
fuck that
So what are you doing for ARMISTICE day other than not getting mail?
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?
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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]
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
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just goes to show that in this, as in most things, one can safely blame Kansas
some foreign language students from china didn't understand i don;t think and they kept talking
i get paid to go to school
that's all I got
purely circumstance we hold no kind of military tradition
woohoo
va.gov was supposed to have a new front page but it decided to be an analogy instead
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
Fuck World War One, by the way.
The Germans used to make him play Russian Roulette
No, fuck you.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
He was posting when I showed up here and then he stopped one day
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
My grandpa did get a purple heart in WW2, I think. We were never close so I don't know.
Hence, the cause of the war.
definitely a bit bigger than the ceremony back home
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.
oh that's how he got them.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
Had a talk with some German veterans from WWII. Their perspective was ... interesting.
I highly recommend it to anyone who can afford it, it's a really beautiful memorial
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
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
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.
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