Veterans Day

[BCUS28]

I never know what kind of ettiquette is appropriate for posting national holidays, so I'll keep it short and simple.

A big shout out to all the veterens

And all you traders don't forget the USPS is closed on Monday.

[hoeser]

Great post! Thanks to all of our service men and women for keeping us safe!

[SingleDaddyof2]

Yes, gotta give props to our troops!

Also, banks and schools will be closed on Monday. (Is there a student on SCF who didn't know there will be no school on Monday? LOL)

[Olivertoxxin]

Good topic. Coming from a person who has had a GreatGrandfather K.I.A in WWII, a GrandFather shot down in a B24 was M.I.A for a while and then a P.O.W for 8 months in a german POW camp. I Also had a family member shot down and was a POW in germany for a while but he was not blood only family by law. So its importeat to never forget the wars we have fought and the men who have died fighting them and the ones who came home.
I have also had close friends of the family spend time in Nam as well as a buddy of mine who has done his time forward in the current war for a year.

[11chaos]

United States = Veterans Day
Australia, Canada, and United Kingdom = Remembrance Day
Malta and South Africa = Poppy Day
France, New Zealand, and many other Commonwealth countries = Armistice Day
Belgium = The day of peace in the Flanders Fields.

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."

After World War II, it was changed to Veterans Day in the United States and to Remembrance Day in the British Commonwealth of Nations. Armistice Day is an official holiday in France.

In many parts of the world, people take two minutes of silence at 11:00 in the morning as a sign of respect for the roughly eight million who died in the war, 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. Since the 1990’s a growing number of people have observed a two-minute silence on 11 November, resulting in both Armistice Day and Remembrance Day being commemorated formally in the UK (although in 2007 they fall of the same day).

[6boyds]

Yes, gotta give props to our troops!

Also, banks and schools will be closed on Monday. (Is there a student on SCF who didn't know there will be no school on Monday? LOL)

I've got school tomorrow...what the heck?

[pr0phet]

I agree with most of the posters here. Gotta give Big props to all our troops past and present. You have done a great service in protecting our country.

[demonpower55]

I've got school tomorrow...what the heck?

I do also, but it could be that I'm in college. That stunk big time because I need an extra day to finish my paper

[6boyds]

I'm in High School...the town near me has school also...:(

[11chaos]

At least you can go to school. Thank a Vet.