Thank You, Vets

Veteran’s Day seems like a holiday that too many of us tend to forget. It doesn’t provide the majority of us with a day off of work, and it doesn’t look like too many of my friend’s classes are canceled (and if they are, it’s probably more due to the shit weather we’ve been having in Richmond as of late). But that doesn’t mean it is any less of a holiday than the commercial spectacles we often celebrate.

Veteran’s Day 2009 is the first ever where we don’t have any surviving veterans of World War I with us. William Stone, Henry Allingham and Harry Patch, all died this year.

So with that, I bid thanks to those who gave their lives. Most of us will never know who you are, but I know my late grandfathers both served proudly, as well as my father and brother who is currently serving. I would never have the balls…

Taking a cue from Slice, apparently order pizza for those serving in the Gulf.  GI Pizza will tell you more.

Peace

-g