U.S. holiday celebrated today remembers the sacrifices of those who fight for freedom
By Robin Rowe
Marines fire a 3-volley salute on Nov. 2, 2009, as the amphibious transport New York (LPD 21) passes Ground Zero. The ship has 7.5 tons of World Trade Center steel in her bow. U.S. Navy photo.
HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 11/11/2009 – War is one of life’s irrational situations where most people can agree it’s wrong, yet the consequences without it can be much worse. As long as there are tyrants, and as long as there are those willing to use force of arms to oppose them, there will be wars. At least, if there’s to be freedom in this world.
Veterans Day originally had a different name and a somewhat different intention. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed an Armistice Day for November 11, 1919, as “a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as Armistice Day.” It celebrated peace, the end of WW1 a year earlier. In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower renamed the holiday as Veterans Day in recognition of the services of all veterans, an idea put forward by a (more…)