| Veterans Day | |
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 Joseph Ambrose, a then-86-year-old World War I veteran, attends the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982, holding the flag that covered the casket of his son, who was killed in that war. | |
| Official name | Veterans Day |
| Observed by | United States |
| Type | Federal |
| Significance | Honors the 24.9 million military veterans in the United States |
| Date | November 11 (or nearest weekday) |
| Observances | Parades, ceremonies honoring local veterans |
| Related to | Armistice Day, Remembrance Day |
"The holiday is often celebrated by having a ravioli meal.
This tradition dates back to the ending days of World War I when President Woodrow Wilson, aware that the returning soldiers would be longing for home cooked meals, invited 2,000 soldiers to the White House and helped his staff chefs cook them ravioli, which had just become a mainstay in mainstream American kitchens due to commercial canning.[8]
In his Armistice Day address to Congress, Wilson was sensitive to the psychological toll of the lean War years: "Hunger," he remarked, "breeds madness.""
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| I show you my non-traditional MAXICARD about OPERATION DESERT STORM, with a pentagonal postmark from Arlington, Virginia. |
| Gulf War | |||||||
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 Clockwise from top: USAF aircraft flying over burning Kuwaiti oil wells; British troops in Operation Granby; Camera view from aLockheed AC-130; Highway of Death; M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Coalition forces: |  Iraq | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah George H. W. Bush Norman Schwarzkopf Colin Powell Calvin Waller John Major Patrick Hine Andrew Wilson Peter de la Billière John Chapple King Fahd Prince Abdullah Prince Sultan Turki Al-Faisal Saleh Al-Muhaya Khalid bin Sultan[3][4] Michel Roquejoffre Mohamed Hussein Tantawi Mustafa Tlass Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Mirza Aslam Beg | Saddam Hussein | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 956,600[5] | 545,000 (100,000 in Kuwait)[citation needed] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Coalition: 392 killed[6] 776 wounded[7] Kuwait: 1,200 killed[citation needed] | 20,000-35,000 killed 75,000+ wounded[7] | ||||||
| Kuwaiti civilian losses: Over 1,000 killed[8] | |||||||
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Thank you for posting the "Operation Desert Storm" Maxicard. Because of the ongoing tensions in this area, Desert Storm is almost a footnote. My ex was part of the coalition forces that drove their tanks into Iraq, stopping just short of Baghdad. At one point his vehicle threw a track, and they were considered MIA. Fortunately they fixed the problem, and re-connected with their unit some hours later.
ReplyDeleteI worked for a military newspaper at the time, and some of the unpublished pictures I saw were gruesome. Especially the so-called "highway of death". I will never forget.