Veterans Day is a public holiday that is dedicated to honoring anyone who has served in the United States military.
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They carried the flags of all branches of service, arriving at the Auld Center for an 11 a.m. ceremony hosted by the veteran’s memorial garden advisory counsel. The San Fernando Valley native said the holiday is a proud day for her and her family.
On Wednesday, David and Motsavage were joined by a group of about 60 people, including veterans, members of American Legion Post 1254, city and county officials and other residents, to dedicate the monument, which has “World War II” etched vertically into its front.
“Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans – the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) – established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj”. “Today we honor those who fought for our freedom, those who forsake the comforts of family and home to protect the American way”. Perhaps their day is one that incorporates a lunch at a few restaurant and leisure time spent around the home. But along the way, the project would become an icon that received so much broad support from the American people. The law went into effect in 1971, but in 1975 President Ford returned Veterans Day to November 11, due to the important historical significance of the date.
“Life just got worse and worse and worse, drinking more and more and more and feeling more and more alienated”, McConnell said.
But home would never be the same because the war came with him.
“Everyone who participated in the war effort is a hero”, Morganthau said.
The U.S Department of Veterans Affairs estimates more than 250 thousand Vietnam vets live in Georgia.
Gary Tibbetts, special assistant to U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarsota, said the percentage of residents in Manatee-Sarasota who are veterans is one of the highest in the nation. Importantly, we celebrate Veterans Day on the day the fighting stopped, not when the war was formally and legally concluded (the Treaty of Versailles was not signed until seven months later).
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Mayor de Blasio noted in his statement that there are more than 200,000 veterans in NY City, 1,000 of them being homeless, according to the Daily News.
