Being a veteran myself, I like to go and help out at the VFW.
2007-10-26 09:19:30 · 13 answers · asked by Rawbert 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Veterans day is on a Sunday this year. Nov 11th.
Government celebrates it on the 12th so they can have Monday off. what a bunch of asses
2007-10-26 09:24:07 · update #1
In preparation for Veterans day, I feel it only prudent to remind everybody what a Veteran is.
To all my fellow brothers and sisters that have served, are serving, and have made the ultimate sacrifice, I thank you. There is a price to pay for our freedom and I am proud of everyone of you that have paid the price. God Bless the USA!
Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye.
Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity.
Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem.
You can't tell a veteran just by looking.
What is a veteran?
He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.
He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is out weighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.
She - or he - is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.
He is the POW who went away one person and came back another - or didn't come back AT ALL.
He is the Marine Corps drill instructor who has never seen combat - but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.
He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.
He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.
He is your next-door neighbor, who endured fierce door-to-door fighting in Fallujah only to see his best friend blown up by a terrorist carbomb while returning from patrol.
He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of the Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.
He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket - palsied now and aggravatingly slow - who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.
He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being - a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.
He is a soldier and savior and sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more that the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.
So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.
Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU".
Remember Veterans Day and Memorial Day,
"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, And whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who allows the protester to burn the flag."
2007-10-26 09:28:16 · answer #1 · answered by flaming_liberal415 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
In Virginia Beach, Virginia, there will be a Veterans' Day parade honoring ALL veterans. The Patriot Guard Riders (see www.patriotguard.org) has been invited to 'ride' (ever 'ride' a motorcycle in a parade...we spent more time walking our bikes than riding them...he he) in the parade...banners, arm bands, vest/jacket patches, 3'x5' flags and iron horses. This will be on Monday 12 November. I plan to go to the Veterans' Memorial on Sunday, November 11 and stand my vigil like I have for the past 3 years.
(USN, retired...1965-85/in-country Viet Nam vet).
2007-10-26 21:50:40 · answer #2 · answered by AmericanPatriot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Attend the parade in downtown Las Vegas, then walk over to the VFW and Legion posts for lunch.
2007-10-26 16:26:05 · answer #3 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was aksed by a local school to talk about why Veteran's Day is so important to me. What an honor. I will stop by the local VA hospital afterwards.
2007-10-26 16:33:35 · answer #4 · answered by Mark W 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Drink a 6 pack in honor of my fallen friends, after I go to the Cemetary and Salute the vets buried their, then finally have a BBQ and watch football.
2007-10-26 19:19:18 · answer #5 · answered by satcomgrunt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, i will not be at the veterans social clubs
More likely try to see if VA hospital could use volunteer
I dont drink, but I will have one to toast those who died
and 1 for all of us who made it back
2007-10-26 16:50:12 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If I'm lucky, my boss will let me have the day off!
Either way I plan on tossing a few back for thoes who lost their lives. Those I knew well and those I didn't know at all, either way I respect them all.
2007-10-26 16:24:05 · answer #7 · answered by Sean C 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Go to church, spend the day with my family
-Desert torm Vet
2007-10-26 19:57:47 · answer #8 · answered by Marc B. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably go to the beach, blow the foam off a couple of cold ones and then head home and fire up the grill...and I'd like to thank the govt. for that holiday pay I'll be getting for Monday........feel free to work on Monday if you feel that strongly about it
2007-10-26 16:23:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Church, visit the veterans memorial, church again...
2007-10-26 16:23:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋