November 11, 2021
It is called Remembrance Day in Canada, and in the other 53 members of The Commonwealth of Nations (a political association of 54 member states, almost all of which are former territories of the British Empire). It is called Veterans’ Day in the United States. Whatever it’s name, let’s pause today and give thanks for those fought, and for those who died to guarantee and protect our freedoms.
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The remembrance poppy is worn to commemorate military personnel who died in war. Inspired by the war poem “In Flanders Fields,” they were first used near the end of World War I to commemorate British Empire and United States military casualties of the war. |
Revolutionary War
War of 1812
Civil War
World War I
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War
"Ain't Gonna Study War No More," by Pete Seeger.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
– Abraham Lincoln
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With Everlasting Gratitude on this Veteran’s Day, and Every Day, for Those Who Gave the Last Full Measure of Devotion.
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BZ's on your Veterans Day blog!! This should be posted worldwide!!
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