Veteran's Day

Yesterday was Veterans Day in the US, Remembrance Day in CA and other names throughout the world.  I always try to remember to thank the veterans (and currently serving) that I know for their service to our country and our world.  I sent a few messages and had lunch with a friend of mine who was a para-trooper many years ago.  She and I had a nice time and I thought how hard it was for me to picture her in her army uniform, gun in hand, parachute pack on back.  But yet in her eyes I see that someone who can and does do what she thinks it right.

My DH also served during the Vietnam war.  He was honored at our daughter's school in the morning and our sons school in the afternoon.  he said the morning was very moving, a banner for each major branch of service (except Coast Guard, which in my mind should also have been included) and there seemed to be at least one man representing each as a veteran.  My DH got to represent the Air Force and he said they were all moved by the choir and the presentations. 

Veteran's Day commemorates the ending of the Great War, WWI.  The war to end all wars and which was so horrid that no one could imagine anything worse.  So much death and destruction.  No one would have believed that just 20 years later, it would indeed get much worse.  I still have a picture of a British solder, Henry Allingham, who lived to be 113 and who served in WWI. he died July 18, 2009. He was the last surviving founding member of the RAF, the last man to have witnessed the Battle of Jutland and the last surviving member of the Royal Naval Air Service.

Here's to you Henry. Peace be with you.