Happy Veterans Day

I was thinking today about the significance of Veterans Day, and how lucky we are to live in a country where people are willing to give their life to make others lives better. With everything that has gone on lately with the election and the financial turmoil, we still have life so much better than so many others. I think we have the veterans of our country to thank for that.
I was also thinking how sad it is that people know so little about the veterans of our country and the things they have been through. For some it is just a day that the mail doesn't come or a day for a "big sale" so I thought maybe some of you would like a little history lesson on how Veterans Day came to be. In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of thosewho died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…"
An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday - - a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as "Armistice Day." Armistice Day was primarily a day set aside to honor veterans of World War I, but in 1954, after World War II had required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen in the Nation’s history; after American forces had fought aggression in Korea, the 83rd Congress, at the urging of the veterans service organizations, amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word "Armistice" and inserting in its place the word "Veterans." With the approval of this legislation (Public Law 380) on June 1, 1954, November 11th became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.

So to all the veterans out there (especially my dad) I honor you today. Happy Veterans Day.