What is Veteran's Day about really?

[Bandit]

Memorial Day is for remembering those who have given their lives for their country and should be remembered for their sacrifice but to me I celibrate "Veteran's Day" because it means we are out. We are through with the service and survived. It is a day of celibration not mourning. Am I wrong in this? I hear about people going to "The Wall" and such but that is for Memorial Day. Today we celibrate that our tour of duty is over. Hoorah! We are no longer soldiers. We are Veterans ~~ Hoorah!!!

[HereSince1628]

1. The end of the first world war is remembered

it used to called Armistice Day

[GainesT1958]

2. To me, veterans, alive and dead, are remembered on both days...

We just emphasize those who made the "ultimate sacrifice" on Memorial Day, and those who survived on Veterans' Day. But it WAS originally Armistice Day, on Nov. 11, 1918, when it was "All Quiet on the Western Front", and so, "Over Over There". :-)

The Raleigh News & Observer interviewed several North Carolina vets to commemorate Veterans' Day, all the way up to the current conflict. They did find a surviving World War I vet, a supply seargent in the "Buffalo Soldiers", who is 113 :wow: . He says he met General Pershing on several occaisions, and when Pershing needed something, "He asked for me". Pretty cool!:D

God Bless ALL our vets--and a big SALLLLL-UTE to those here at D.U.!:kick:

B-)