Veterans Day 11-11-2022 - updated to 2025

[Bazza]

THANK YOU to all our veterans and their families....we love and respect and above all.....are GRATEFUL for your service and sacrifice!

At Walmart earlier this week I was headed to the self-checkout and noticed a man in front of me kinda hunched over a bit wearing a ball cap and pushing his cart with a younger female escort and I was thinking to myself "That looks like a military veteran."

I went about my business and as I was finishing up they went by and I was able to see his "Honor Air" ball cap so extended my hand and said "Thank you for your service!" Boy did his face light up! Korean veteran and he proceeded to share a few stories about me in historical nature. I told him about my folks and my Mom who also took an Honor Air flight.

I see veterans every day and always make a point to connect and let them know they are loved and appreciated.

 

[Guido]

Just think about the 100's of thousands of people the U.S. Marines have saved all over the world throughout their existence. God bless those jarheads.

 

[Bazza]

It is the veteran, not the preacher,
who has given you freedom of religion.

It is the veteran, not the reporter,
who has given you freedom of the press.

It is the veteran, not the poet,
who has given you freedom of speech.

It is the veteran, not the protester,
who has given you freedom to assemble.

It is the veteran, not the lawyer,
who has given you the right to a fair trial.

It is the veteran, not the politician,
who has given you the right to vote.

It is the veteran,
who salutes the Flag,
who serves under the Flag,
whose coffin is draped by the Flag.

 

[BamaBoySince89]

United States Army
2009-2019 (92Y, 42A)
92nd EN BN (2009-2013)
16th SB (2013-2016)
United States Army Central - “Patton’s Own” (2016-2019)
Operation Enduring Freedom 2010-11

From one Vet to another, thanks to all of you who have served this country. God bless you all.

 

[Bazza]

 

[Tidewater]

I went to the cemetery to decorate the graves of our Civil War veterans.
We have one Yankee veteran: Herman Eaton, Co E, 11th Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers who died in 1914.
The rest fought for the South. All have flags for the day

 

[Tidewater]

And for our allies observing Armistice Day, here is June Tabor "Man's Land."

 

[Tidewater]

Bazentin-le-Petit has renovated and rededicated a monument to a British officer Captain Houston Wallace of Birkenhead, England (incidentally, the place where the CSS Alabama was built).

Wallace at Oxford before the war.
Captain Wallace disappeared in July 1916 at the Somme and his body was never recovered. His aunt erected a monument to his memory in the 1920s.

Monument before restoration
After a century of being in the elements, the monument needed some work so Brits and French folk pitched in and renovated it.

It was rededicated last week in northern France..Since I do not think family members were there, I see the crowd as rededicating the monument not just for Captain Wallace, but for all the dead and missing.

 

[Bazza]

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