Veterans from Tampa Bay Tech
WUSF Radio did a story about "Tampa Bay Tech students who have served and are serving in the armed forces. Their names are engraved on brick pavers lining a walkway inside a sunny courtyard on the high school campus."
One of those is a Seminole Heights resident. He was wounded in the Irag war. Still undergoing surgery on his hand.
"DEATHE: My son is Adam Sardinas - Marine he was injured in action in April of this year so he's healing up at a wounded warriors barracks at Camp Lejeune.
Cyd Deathe is a secretary at Tampa Bay Tech. She took a photo of her son's paver to email to him.
DEATHE: We just owe so much to our veterans I wish we could just have a class for the kids to just teach kids pride about our country and what it means to love your country and be a veteran and the respect and honor that they deserve. Her son wants to be a history teacher. Most likely he'll teach about Armistice Day
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I am wondering, is Armistice Day now officially called Veteran's Day? My family always called it Armistice Day, but I don't hear it called that much anymore. I see it as Veteran's Day on the calendar...
FYI FROM WIKIPEDIA......
Armistice Day is the anniversary of the official end of World War I, November 11, 1918. It commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning — the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month." While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the ceasefire on the Western Front, hostilities continued in other regions, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Ottoman Empire.
The date was a national holiday in many of the former allied nations to allow people to commemorate those members of the armed forces who were killed during war. After World War II, it was changed to Veterans Day in the United States and to Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations. Armistice Day is an official holiday in Belgium, known also as the day of peace in the Flanders Fields.
In many parts of the world, people take two minutes of silence at 1100h as a sign of respect for the roughly eight million who died in the war, as suggested by Edward George Honey in a letter to a British newspaper though Wellesley Tudor Pole established two ceremonial periods of remembrance based on events in 1917. [1] [2] Beginning in 1939, the two-minute silence was moved to the Sunday nearest the 11th, in order not to interfere with wartime production should the 11th fall on a weekday.
In Belgium, this tradition lasted until 2003, when a group in successfully lobbied the international community to move the official moment of remembrance back to the 11th.
Let's just pray our newly elected government officials make it a priority to bring our troops home. I truly feel for the families that have lost loved ones fighting this war. At some point, we must sit back an ask ourselves is it worth it to continue. Many more people have been killed in this war than in the WTC. The number of innocent people killed is staggering.
Sheila-
In the long run people who think and feel like you will kill multitudes more than our current military actions have.
Anonymous 5:23, Amen.
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