Posts Tagged ‘Veterans Day’
History of Flag Day
Reading Time: 4 minutesHISTORY OF FLAG DAY Part of the series on America 250, the US Semiquincentennial une 14 is Flag Day in the United States. While it is not a federal holiday and may not be as widely celebrated as other American holidays, it is one of the oldest. It was resolved by the Second Continental Congress in…
Read MoreHistory of Memorial Day: Why We Fight
Reading Time: 3 minutesHISTORY OF MEMORIAL DAY: WHY WE FIGHT As we celebrate Memorial Day, the world is different from what it was two and a half decades ago. We have troops in countries that we didn’t have then, and after 9/11, we now remember why we fight. The History Channel often reruns the HBO series Band of…
Read MoreHistory of Veterans Day: Lest We Forget
Reading Time: 3 minutesVeterans Day used to be called Armistice Day, commemorating the ending of hostilities on the western front of World War I on November 11, 1918, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. At 5:45 am on that day, Germany signed the Armistice (truce) in the Forest of Compiegne, and the order was given for a cease-fire later that morning, after four years of war.
Read MoreHistory of Veterans Day: Lest We Forget
Reading Time: 3 minutesHISTORY OF VETERANS DAY A professor once commented, “We write things down so we can forget them.” Now, of course, this is true in the sense of writing down appointments so we don’t have to worry about missing meetings. But that’s just it; we do forget things. As individuals, we forget things that are important…
Read MoreHistory of Veterans Day: Lest we forget
Reading Time: 2 minutesHISTORY OF VETERANS DAY A professor once commented, "We write things down so we can forget them." Now, of course this is wrong, except in the limited sense of writing down appointments so we don’t have to worry about missing meetings. But that’s just it, we do forget things. As individuals we forget things that…
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