Muscatine

Many have gone.



Many have gone:
2003-486
2004-849
2005-846
2006-822
2007-935 through Nov. 7th.

They

are in my prayers and will be untill they are home safe.

I'm confused.

I was taught in school that Veterans Day was for the LIVING Veterans and that Memorial Day was to honor the DEAD. Can somebody clarify?

Don't be confused.

The current ''Veterans' Day'' was originally known as ''Armistice Day'', in remembrance of the end of WWI (armistice signed Nov. 11th).

''An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday - - a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as ''Armistice Day.'' Armistice Day was primarily a day set aside to honor veterans of World War I, but in 1954, after World War II had required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen in the Nation?’s history; after American forces had fought aggression in Korea, the 83rd Congress, at the urging of the veterans service organizations, amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word ''Armistice'' and inserting in its place the word ''Veterans.'' With the approval of this legislation (Public Law 380) on June 1, 1954, November 11th became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.''


The complete historical explaination can be read at this web site:

http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp