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I'll be going to the Vet's Day ceremony here in Charlottesville, held on the lawn of the County Admin building downtown. It's a really great ceremony with some quite distinguished speakers. Last year, the Commandant from the local JAG school spoke.
Also, re-enactors will perform ceremonical duties, escorts, etc. They represent revolutionary, civil war, and usually WW I and WWII soldiers. Volleys are fired with period firearms. Our local High School band plays patriotic songs, always with lively and stirring Sousa tunes. There's nothing like Sousa to get a crowd fired up!
Wreaths are laid at a memorial monument in front of the building by combat vets from the local VFW Post. It's a very somber and sobering ceremony to see the old vets carry their wreath to the monument, and it never fails to elicit a tear or two from members of the audience. I must admit that it stirs my emotions almost every time I see it.
I'll attend with a couple of vets here from work. Both are decorated combat vets and it's an honor to attend with them.
I hope everyone has an opportunity to attend a local, regional or national Veteran's Day ceremony. If you've never done it, you're really missing something grand.
Try to attend.
Also, re-enactors will perform ceremonical duties, escorts, etc. They represent revolutionary, civil war, and usually WW I and WWII soldiers. Volleys are fired with period firearms. Our local High School band plays patriotic songs, always with lively and stirring Sousa tunes. There's nothing like Sousa to get a crowd fired up!
Wreaths are laid at a memorial monument in front of the building by combat vets from the local VFW Post. It's a very somber and sobering ceremony to see the old vets carry their wreath to the monument, and it never fails to elicit a tear or two from members of the audience. I must admit that it stirs my emotions almost every time I see it.
I'll attend with a couple of vets here from work. Both are decorated combat vets and it's an honor to attend with them.
I hope everyone has an opportunity to attend a local, regional or national Veteran's Day ceremony. If you've never done it, you're really missing something grand.
Try to attend.
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Applebee's is having an "eat free" day tomorrow for veterans and active service military personnel. I'll be there for dinner. Great way to thank the vets and soldiers. 
Edit: I remember it being called "Armistice Day"...in remembrance of the end of WW1. It was officially changed to "Veteran's Day" in 1954, but many people kept calling it "Armistice Day" for a long time...myself included.
Edit: I remember it being called "Armistice Day"...in remembrance of the end of WW1. It was officially changed to "Veteran's Day" in 1954, but many people kept calling it "Armistice Day" for a long time...myself included.
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coldplugs said:
Happy Birthday, USMC......
John, it still is Armistice Day! Only the US has changed its designation.
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them".