[Hallicrafters] Happy Memorial Day Weekend |
rbethman
rbethman at comcast.net
Sat May 28 17:09:03 EDT 2011
Dick,
Armistice Day is *STILL* celebrated in November!
They went through the Capitol Hill mental masturbation that created the
three day weekend nonsense!
Armistice Day is *NOW* called Veteran's Day and is *STILL* a holiday in
November.
Keep the faith!
The eleventh day, of the eleventh month......
Never forgotten!
Bob - N0DGN
On 5/28/2011 4:51 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>
> I am giving away my age when I tell you that when I was in grammar
> school we celebrated Armistice Day, now combined with Memorial Day.
> Armistice Day, the eleventh of November, the date of the armistice of
> WW-1. It was set aside to memorialize those lost in one of the
> deadliest wars of all time. We made paper poppies; the significance of
> this has probably been lost to those not pretty old but was because of
> the poppy fields of Flanders where so many men died. Of course we also
> celebrated Memorial day, originally meant to commemorate those lost in
> the American Civil War. We also celebrated V-J Day, now pretty much
> forgotten, to commemorate the end of WW-2.
> While Memorial Day has become simply an excuse for along weekend it
> should be a celebrated solemnly, a great many men and women died in
> these wars and left an appalling amount of grief behind.
>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
>
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