VETERANS DAY 2015

For each and every veteran – Thank You!!

Armistice Day Becomes Veterans Day

World War I officially ended on June 28, 1919, with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The actual fighting between the Allies and Germany, however, had ended seven months earlier with the armistice, which went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. Armistice Day, as November 11 became known, officially became a holiday in the United States in 1926, and a national holiday 12 years later. On June 1, 1954, the name was changed to Veterans Day to honor all U.S. veterans.

A military parade with crowds of excited spectators along 5th Avenue, in celebration of Armistice day and peace in Europe following World War One, New York, 1918. (Photo by Paul Thompson/FPG/Getty Images)

In 1968, new legislation changed the national commemoration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. It soon became apparent, however, that November 11 was a date of historic significance to many Americans. Therefore, in 1978 Congress returned the observance to its traditional date.

Please watch and listen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq1xMXOhxqE

For their loyalty…

War Dog Memorial on Guam

For the rest – Let your patriotism show!!

For the Remembrance Days around the Free World!

The Things That Make a Soldier Great


    The things that make a soldier great and send him out to die,
    To face the flaming cannon's mouth, nor ever question why,
    Are lilacs by a little porch, the row of tulips red,
    The peonies and pansies, too, the old petunia bed,
    The grass plot where his children play, the roses on the wall:
    'Tis these that make a soldier great. He's fighting for them all.

    'Tis not the pomp and pride of kings that make a soldier brave;
    'Tis not allegiance to the flag that over him may wave;
    For soldiers never fight so well on land or on the foam
    As when behind the cause they see the little place called home.
    Endanger but that humble street whereon his children run--
    You make a soldier of the man who never bore a gun.

    What is it through the battle smoke the valiant soldier sees?
    The little garden far away, the budding apple trees,
    The little patch of ground back there, the children at their play,
    Perhaps a tiny mound behind the simple church of gray.
    The golden thread of courage isn't linked to castle dome
    But to the spot, where'er it be--the humble spot called home.

    And now the lilacs bud again and all is lovely there,
    And homesick soldiers far away know spring is in the air;
    The tulips come to bloom again, the grass once more is green,
    And every man can see the spot where all his joys have been.
    He sees his children smile at him, he hears the bugle call,
    And only death can stop him now--he's fighting for them all.

by: Edgar A, Guest

For those who need assistance of any kind… browse through Colonel Mike Grice’s website!

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Shout Out!!

It has been a while since my last Shout Out to the Veterans and Volunteers of Arkansas – my apologies!  I think of you all quite often and Sheri DeGrom keeps me up-to-date on your activities.  Enjoy your day!!!!!!!!!

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Boot Camp Humor – (you didn’t forget your D.I., do you….?)

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Farewell Salutes – 

Carl Bove – Willow Grove, PA; US Army Air Corps, WWII, PTO, C/188th/11th Airborne

…. . and every day!

Francis Dabrowski – Chicago, IL; USMC, WWII, Korea

Robert Feigley – Hagerstown, MD; US Army Air Corps, WWII, Korea

James Hoeh – Cincinnati, OH; US Army, Korea, 187th RCT

Clive Irving – Taupo, NZ; NZ J Force # 634744, WWII

Willard Janey – Graham, NC; US Army Air Corps, WWII, PTO, HQS/675th Artillery

Melvin McCoury Jr. – Spokane, WA; USMC; Korea, Vietnam, Colonel (Ret. 23 years)

Ronald Prentice – Sydney, AUS; RA Air Force, WWII,pilot, 461 Sunderland Flying Boat

Ricardo Young – Rosston, AR; US Army, Afghanistan, XVIII Airborne, Sgt.

Stanley Zwicker – Nova Scotia, CAN; RC Army, WWII

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