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Happy Remembrance Day
to our Canadian friends!
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You’re very welcome. Not that I accomplished much. But I tried.
I salute veterans everywhere! Now, if you can, please make a contribution to a reputable charity that helps vets You can find one using Charity Navigator.
Bless them all who have served and given up their lives for our country. They will be always be remembered and held within our hearts.
Happy Veterans Day to all.
Salute to those Veterans who stepped up, and served this great Country of ours, in war and in Peace. Prayers for our fallen comrades. The flyover at the local cemetery still make me weep, with the mournfulcadence of Taps.
I am a Navy Vet, and would do it all over again.
My spouse, daughter, and son are also Navy Veterans. I marched in the parade yesterday to honor this day.
Happy Remembrance Day to our Northern Neighbors as well. !!
Happy Veterans Day, Remembrance Day & Armistice Day! ?
I hope all had a wonderful day celebrating Veteran Day, Memorial Day or Armistice Day today.
Happy Veteran’s Day!!
Did someone forget to tell the Orange Bozo to put some feeling into his words? Oh, right.
Happy Veteran’s Day, Remembrance Day and Armistice Day. I’m am thankful for all veterans and current military for their service.
I too am a proud Navy Veteran and would happily do it again.
Thank you TomCat.
Hate to admit it, but I had not learned that KCMO has been enjoying an amazing light show at our Liberty Memorial and National World War I Museum. (It’s the only museum in the entire USA dedicated to those who served in WWI – and the museum itself is quite amazing!)
But when I did learn about it, I threw together a Diary for Daily Kos and a Post for here (see above). Plus I battled an unbelievable traffic jam to get downtown to see it, as tonight is its last night. And it was well worth the battle!
It’s always hard to know how much to include in a Post covering such a broad topic like WWI, so I’m going to include something here that I did not in either post – the hallmark poem of WWI “In Flanders Fields”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Flanders_Fields
Last year I posted In Remembrance — In Flanders Fields complete with pictures from WWI. And I very much appreciate Nameless’ post yesterday Giant Poppies Light Up Liberty Memorial in KCMO.
In Canada, as in much of the British Commonwealth, Remembrance Day (also known as Armistice Day) is a solemn occasion and we do not say ‘Happy Remembrance Day’. In 1931, Armistice Day was changed to Remembrance Day to include the fallen of all modern wars, and then changed again to include survivors too. Thank you to all our veterans. We asked you to do what no person should be asked to do, and you stepped up.
When I was a teen, I always went to the Cenotaph for services because I became acutely aware that my grandfather survived that era when so many others did not. He was in the Canadian army but, as I was told, he had a medical condition that meant no overseas duty. He served at home instead. So someone else served overseas and I remembered them. During WWII, he served in London, UK as a civilian accepting the post of the director of the Beaver Club, a recreation spot for Canadian non-commissioned troops.
To my American friends, Happy Veterans Day! Thank you for your service. You too answered the call when your government asked.
I’m sorry, Lynn. What is the proper greeting for Remembrance Day?
I don’t know that there is a specific greeting other than ‘Hello’. I did hear someone say ‘In Remembrance’ some years ago but that is not common. Remembrance Day is more a day of thanksgiving for the sacrifice made by so many and a day of mourning for that sacrifice.
Our Remembrance Day is very similar to the American Memorial Day . . . actually, a combination of the two with more emphasis to memorialising the fallen.
How do you Americans greet each other on Memorial Day? Just curious as I can’t remember.
Most Americans say Happy Memorial Day, as they are thinking only of the three day weekend. For the Article I say On Memorial Day or Remembering the Fallen.
In the article I posted last year, the title was “In Remembrance — In Flanders Fields” which is how I relate to Remembrance Day . . . somber, respectful.
I dare say that many here might say Happy Remembrance Day out of ignorance and because in most parts of the country, it is a statutory holiday. It is not always a 3 day weekend since it is always on 11/11.
Thanks Lynn. I’m glad we have two separate days to celebrate our veterans without disrespect to the fallen.
Thanks all. Loving Hugs!