Com-Pac Yacht Owners Association

General Com-Pac and Sailing Related Discussions => Com-Pac Sailors Lounge => Topic started by: Craig Weis on November 08, 2009, 10:00:40 PM

Title: 11-November-1918~Happy Armistist/Veteran's Day
Post by: Craig Weis on November 08, 2009, 10:00:40 PM
Jasen Covert.
(http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh299/1930fordroadster/finished-fullinit_.jpg)
Three volunteer tours in Afghanistan. Now in Japan. Professional solder.
A true gentlemen. Happy Veteran's Day my friend.

For those who perfer Armistace Day I offer this old post
WWI came to an end by an armistice arranged to occur at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. The date and time, selected at a point in history when mens? memories ran much longer, represented a compliment to St. Martin, patron saint of soldiers, and thus a tribute to the fighting men of both sides. The feast day of St. Martin, the Martinmas, had been for centuries a major landmark in the European calendar, a date on which leases expired, rents came due; and represented, in Northern Europe, a seasonal turning point after which cold weather and snow might be normally expected.

It fell about the Martinmas-time, when the snow lay on the borders?
(http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh299/1930fordroadster/2342900858_8f5a1f42a0.jpg)

I can say no more. skip
Title: Re: 11-November-1918~Happy Armistist/Veteran's Day
Post by: Bob23 on November 09, 2009, 05:01:12 AM
My thanks to all who have served and are now serving to protect this nation of ours. I am grateful, even though never having served myself.
Bob23
Title: Re: 11-November-1918~Happy Armistist/Veteran's Day
Post by: mrb on November 09, 2009, 07:22:17 PM
David

Well said

Melvin
Title: Re: 11-November-1918~Happy Armistist/Veteran's Day
Post by: brackish on November 10, 2009, 07:48:46 AM
Great stuff David,

Semper Fi

Frank