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Iwant2kssuallovr
61 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Veterans Day
If anyone has been around here long and knows me will know I feel very strongly about honoring our Veterans.
And yet, I learned something new when posting.
Veterans Day is an official United States public holiday, observed annually on November 11, that honors military veterans; that is, persons who served in the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with other holidays, including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of World War I; major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. The United States previously observed Armistice Day. The U.S. holiday was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.
Many other countries honor their veterans on November 11th of each year. However, the name of the holiday and the types of ceremonies differ from the Veterans Day activities in the United States.
Canada, Australia, and Great Britain refer to their holidays as "Remembrance Day." Canada and Australia observe the day on November 11, and Great Britain conducts their ceremonies on the Sunday nearest to November 11th.
One notable difference is that many Canadians wear a red poppy flower on November 11 to honor their war dead, while the "red poppy" tradition is observed in the United States on Memorial Day.
In Australia, "Remembrance Day" is very much like America's Memorial Day, in that it's considered a day to honor Australian veterans who died in war.
In Great Britain, the day is commemorated by church services and parades of ex-service members in Whitehall, a wide ceremonial avenue leading from London's Parliament Square to Trafalgar Square. Wreaths of poppies are left at the Cenotaph, a war memorial in Whitehall, which was built after the First World War.
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| November 9, 2017, 01:21 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
61 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Re: Veterans Day
Veterans Day is in honor of the Men, Women, and K-9 forces who bravely and unselfishly protected us from the evils of war.
John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields"
"In Flanders fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below."
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| November 9, 2017, 01:25 |
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Iwant2kssuallovr
61 / female
Bendover, Florida, US
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Re: Veterans Day
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| November 9, 2017, 01:29 |
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sybianwatcher1
48 / male
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Re: Veterans Day
Most citizens in British Columbia Canada, will wear the red poppy the entire month of November
They are by donation.......and the funds go towards wounded and disabled veterans, getting treatment and physiotherapists, to help them rejoin society.
If I heard right at the Remembrance Day Ceremony this year.....the funds were 13 million.
I carried the red poppy in my cargo pocket, folded in two....my entire tour overseas.
" Lest we forget "
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| November 14, 2017, 04:28 |
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