Veterans Day, 2009

Once again, we honor today those brave millions who have served and fought for our country over its history. Without them, we would not have a history.

We especially pay tribute to those now fighting in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. May they all come home healthy.

Remember to fly our flag!

I proudly reprint here last year’s two Veterans Day salutes:

It was the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month when the ”War to End All Wars,” “the Great War,” ended in 1918 with the declaration of an armistice.

The fighting was over between the Allies and Germany, the bloodletting was finished, even though the politicians took another seven months to declare an official end to what would become known as World War I with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles: http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp

Ironically, the punitive and shortsighted nature of that treaty . . .