Veterans' Day

[ColdBlooded]

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.

 

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Good for you

 

[Meta4iCAL]

I didn't even read that shit, but I'm getting paid to sit on my ass and watch Sport Center right now. Thank you Veterans!

 

[DVS ONE]

 

[surcaliman]

n 1953, an Emporia, Kansas man named Alvin King the owner of a shoe repair shop, had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans, not just those who died 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 to honor all veterans. With the help of U.S. Representative 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]

Congress amended this act on June 1, 1954, replacing "Armistice" with "Veterans," and it has been known as Veterans Day since.

 

[InfamousICON]

Veteran's Day can stay

I got a day off, free lunch at Applebees, free dinner at Chili's, a rain check voucher from Olive Garden for a free future dinner, and two free subs from a couple Subways driving around today.

Veteran's Day is awesome

 

[Mcthuggin99]

Veteran's Day can stay

I got a day off, free lunch at Applebees, free dinner at Chili's, a rain check voucher from Olive Garden for a free future dinner, and two free subs from a couple Subways driving around today.

Veteran's Day is awesome

is Veteran's Day "fuck it, imma get fat today" Day for you?


i remember some woman back in high school came to my class and said that she would always get free dinners and stuff like that whenever she was in her fatigues. but she was in the National Guard though