Tantalizing Truth
Posted by Michele Downes
This week's Tantalizing Truth is dedicated to our soldiers who have sacrificed much for our freedoms and comforts. They deserve glory and honor. Let us honor them by being the best we can be and using our resources for the good of others as we pause to remember them.
Veterans Day originally was held every November 11th. It was first incorporated as by President Wilson as Armistice Day in 1919. Eventually after WWII, citizens felt that the veterans of all wars should be recognized, not just those of WWI. So in 1954 Congress changed the name from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.
Veterans Day originally was held every November 11th. It was first incorporated as by President Wilson as Armistice Day in 1919. Eventually after WWII, citizens felt that the veterans of all wars should be recognized, not just those of WWI. So in 1954 Congress changed the name from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.
Life's most urgent question is, " What are you doing for others?" Martin Luther King, Jr.
In Your Honor
Unselfishly, you left your fathers and your mothers, you left behind your sisters and your brothers. Leaving your beloved children and wives, you put on hold,your dreams:your lives. On foreign soil,you found yourself planted to fight for those whose freedom you granted.
Without your sacrifice, their cause would be lost. But you carried onward, no matter the cost. Many horrors you had endured and seen. Many faces had haunted your dreams.
You cheered as your enemies littered the ground; you cried as your brothers fell all around. When it was over, you all came back home.
Some of you were left with memories to face all alone. Some of you found yourselves in the company of friends. You, who survived were forever scarred emotionally,physically, permanently marred. You who did not, now sleep eternally 'Neath the ground you had given your lives to keep me free.
Pain and death was the price that you ultimately paid.
We give our utmost admiration to those who had fought to defend our nation.