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Steady Service

Happy 🪖 Veterans 🎖️ Day. It’s our opportunity to thank and honor those among us who have served our country…

Thank You

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. ~Calvin Coolidge

I’ve been blessed in my life to be surrounded by people who rendered honorable service to our country.

Uncles, neighbors, coworkers, acquaintances, all calmly living their lives after their terms of service.

Some enjoyed entire careers. Some were in and out.

Either way, their service helped to shape the people I have come to know, respect and love.

Today is the day we give them their due.

To everyone who has served this country for any length of time, thank you for your service.

You are appreciated.

Those Who Served

Veterans Day Facts for Kids

Here are some facts about Veterans Day for your viewing pleasure.

It was originally Armistice Day, to celebrate the end of the War To End All Wars.

Well…

That WWI armistice was declared at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918.

Unfortunately, human nature being what it is, the very terms of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 following that armistice led to a second, even more widespread and brutal, world war.

Through all of it, we had men and women serving honorably in wartime and in peace.

Eventually, Armistice Day was changed from a holiday honoring the end of WWI to Veterans Day, honoring all people performing military service to our nation.

That’s more fitting, ultimately.

Ending WWI was certainly a good thing, but honoring our veterans is unquestionably far better.

Our veterans are a blessing to the nation and should be treated as such.

Again I say, thank you for your service. You are appreciated.

Sing-along: ‘God Bless America’ by Irving Berlin – Kate Smith

Setting Self Aside

From here on, it would be the nation I would be serving, not myself. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

The gentleman farmer who settled on the outskirts of Gettysburg, PA definitely served with distinguished honor.

Like a lot of our veterans, he was a fairly down-to-earth guy just trying to live his best life.

Same.

I’m just here in my cozy little cottage in the wilds of rural Pennsylvania trying to get on with things.

You might not have noticed, but in the post graphic above, I’ve got two characters from this year’s Holiday Season Serial Romance, One Little Thing 💍 checking out the VFW for an upcoming appearance that will be depicted in the story.

The Sentinelsverse is a parallel world that is very similar to ours, but in Wyoming Pass the VFW is #729.

Any particular reason? No, that’s just what appeared when I generated a post header image for an HSSR episode.

Since it’s in Pennswald, instead of actually in our world I’d like to say to wherever VFW 729 actually happens to be, no disrespect intended.

As for actual progress on that story? Still at five of forty.

The weekends haven’t been great, but I’m feeling more rested now after the past weekend’s extended crashout.

I am accomplishing some of the finicky details of establishing Nerdsylvania Publishing as an active concern, but it’s going almost as slowly as the writing.

That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for 🪾🍂🪾