November 11, 2006
Veterans Day
On this Veterans Day I'd like express my appreciation to all my military readers, active, discharged or retired. Thank you for your service. To those on duty away from home, may you all come home safe and sound.
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you are welcome and keep up the good posting.
re: veterans day
it's worth noting that this holiday was orignally Armistice Day, the commemoration of the peace that ended World War I, which was supposed to be the peace to end the War to end all Wars. That got to be pretty silly when we fought WW II and then a bunch more wars after that. Now there's hardly anyone left alive from WWI.
But let's remember that the British french and Germans lost like 25 million young men in that war, and america another few hundred thousand, and the russians so many that their government collapsed and and czar and patriarch were taken over by german-financed communists who took russia prisoner for 90 years.
We should commend all veterans, but WWI and WW II, which flowed from the bad peace of WWI, killed a lot of people young and needlessly.
Plus it caused the World Series to be cancelled in 1918!
on the plus side, the idea that Pete Gray, a one armed man, could play in majors in 1945, while blacks were still banned, gave rise to the notion that the color line was unjust, and led to jackie robinson getting his shot with the dodgers.
too bad no one remembered to integrate motels in florida during spring training until 1965.
--art kyriazis
--art kyriazis, philly