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Topic: Veterans Day
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randy
Member Posts: 2176
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 11-11-2006 02:21 PM
   
This is off topic, but thank you to all of the veterans in CollectSpace. I hope you all have a great day today!Randy |
spaceman
Member Posts: 1104
From: Walsall, West Midlands, UK
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 11-12-2006 01:18 PM
Thanks to veterans everywhere enabling us to be here and make choices,
Nick
Spaceman.
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mdmyer
Member Posts: 900
From: Humboldt KS USA
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted 11-12-2006 04:46 PM
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Originally posted by randy:
I hope you all have a great day today!Randy
Thanks for the wishes for a great day. I hope the other Veterans enjoyed their day too. I am a veteran and even though I had to work on Veterans day I was able to enjoy the evening. I took my daughter to a Kansas Jayhawks basketball game. Humboldt, KS is a small town of 1,800 people but one of our own made the Jayhawks basketball team this year. KU basketball tickets are hard to find so if anyone knows of any please contact me. Mike Myer
Humboldt KS Former member
1st Infantry Division
The Big Red One |
Astro Bill
Member Posts: 1329
From: New York, NY
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 11-15-2006 11:47 PM
I also worked on Veterans Day. I am not a veteran, but my father was killed in Normandy on July 10, 1944. As I walked to work, I crossed Fifth Avenue in New York City with the other pedestrians just as the Veterans Day Parade came to a halt to allow traffic in 47th Street. I usually wear a lapel pin flag on such occasions, but I had forgotten it at home. I felt out of place without it. As the parade came to a halt, the cheering increased as the spectators declared their appreciation to the marchers, now at "Parade Rest!" From my nearby office I could still hear the military bands and the cheering crowd. I am very appreciative of the sacrifices that all veterans have made to assure our freedom. [Edited by Astro Bill (November 15, 2006).] |
mikepf
Member Posts: 441
From: San Jose, California, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 11-16-2006 10:57 AM
Bill's comment about a lapel pin reminded me of something. Does anyone remember vets selling little red paper poppy flower lapel pins to wear on Veteran's Day? My dad used to buy them and we would wear them when I was a kid. But the tradition seems to have died here and I had forgotten all about it. Last year a coworker from England wore one. I thought it would be great to revive the tradition here.
Mikie |
Astro Bill
Member Posts: 1329
From: New York, NY
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 11-16-2006 11:36 AM
I remember buying and wearing a Poppy on Veterans Day, as recalled in the following article:
http://www.chiff.com/home_life/holiday/veterans-day.htm |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 11-16-2006 12:15 PM
They still sell them here in my area of MA.
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mdmyer
Member Posts: 900
From: Humboldt KS USA
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted 11-16-2006 12:22 PM
While I don't remember seeing them this year I purchase them every year. The set up outside the local Wal Marts and sell them. Mike |
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