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If you are a veteran, thank you for your courage. You, and we, will need it. If you aren't, thank one. But we will all need your courage too.
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It seems a wee bit ironic to me that the Veterans' Administration picked this as the official 2016 poster. How did they know how much we are all going to need courage – like never before.
My whole family is Navy (Veterans), husband, me, and children. "All Hands on Deck"!! Salute!!!
Here's the Armed Forces Medley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnFGc5r9bJE&list=RDzudFEvTj9H0&index=2
Thank you, Joanne, for your Service, and to others on C2 that have served.
Here in Canada, it is Remembrance Day, and like Americans, we celebrate all those who have died in battle, but also those who served and returned home.
My grandfather was in the RCAC (Royal Canadian Army Corps) in 1914 through to Armistice Day, 11 November 1918, but he never served overseas due to a medical issue. I have always felt that I had the company of my grandfather (my favourite by the way) because other men were sent to the front where many perishedand. Many of them were young and then gone before they had families. My grandfather was 23 years old in 1914 but had not yet married and did not have his own family yet. And so I honour all of them! As a teen, when other kids were playing, I would dress in my grandmother's blue blazer, a kilt (no I am not a Scot) and stockings, and walk to the Cenotaph for the services. Sometimes I cried at the playing of The Last Post, but always I was thankful.
My father enlisted in the RCN (Royal Canadian Navy) in 1944 at the age of 18. He was on HMCS Prince Robert, which along with 2 other ships, were taken out of merchant service. This from Wikipedia:
My father was a radioman and his ship went in and out of Tokyo harbour picking up Allied POWs until after the war ended.
My father's sister, who is aged 93 now, was a WREN (women's navy) who worked mostly in Halifax, NS as I recall as a nursing sister specialising in occupational therapy.
My mother's brother was in the US Army but he cut off contact with the family for many, many years so I don't know much about his service. He passed away from cancer within the past 8 years.
To my knowledge, nobody else in my recent family has served.
Quite a few countries honor war dead at this time. We are instead honoring the living who have served. We also have a day to honor the dead who served (regardless when and how they died), but that is in May, Memorial Day.
I''m sure its only a coincidence that the last picture I looked at just moments ago was that of a cartoon of the Presidential seal where the American Eagle had died and was falling apart under the President-elect. American veterans deserve better than that, much better than that. They've had the courage to serve their country, something Drumpf couldn't muster then, and had himself declared unfit for service on a heel spur, and can't muster now, but is not above demeaning them.
Thanks for posting, Joanne.
JD, normally I always have a special article for Veterans Day. Thank you for covering my butt.
To all vets, thank you for your service. The politicians who started most of the wars in which you served, are worthy of condemnation, but you are worthy of honor.