From the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs:
Veterans Day continues to be observed on November 11, regardless of what day of the week on which it falls. The restoration of the observance of Veterans Day to November 11 not only preserves the historical significance of the date, but helps focus attention on the important purpose of Veterans Day: A celebration to honor America's veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good.
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Don Feder at FrontPageMagazine has a sad and nostalgic
take on the America us oldies grew up in.
Here’s some of it:
Those of us who were part of the
Baby Boom generation, now in our 60s and 70s, no longer recognize the nation in
which we grew up. We are strangers in a land that gets stranger by the day.
We believed in the American dream.
We worked hard, paid our taxes and obeyed the law —even laws we thought were
idiotic.
. . .
Most of us don’t recognize Biden’s
America. Patriotism has become passé. Our military is led by men who are social
workers and politically correct hacks.
They can’t fight, but they’re great
at getting soldiers to use preferred pronouns and combating imaginary racism in
the ranks.
Giant corporations have replaced
individual enterprise, which – in many cases – has been taxed and regulated out
of existence. Government bureaucrats and corporate executives are like the pigs
and men at the end of Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”
. . .
Officeholders for life treat us
like mentally-challenged children. They snicker at those who pay their
exorbitant salaries.
So we limp along into old age, too
proud to go on the dole and too stubborn to just give up.
Besides, surrender now would be a
betrayal of the America that once was.
Read the whole thing here.
This past weekend was filled with relentlessly discouraging headlines. But Toni Williams at VictoryGirlsblog had an upbeat column about “The Greatest Accomplishment of Donald Trump.” She begins:
President Donald J. Trump will
leave the White House early on the morning of January 20, 2021. He is not
sticking around to watch the Cheater-in-Chief be inaugurated. Quite frankly, I
am glad. If Trump attended the Inauguration, it would give a legitimacy to Joe
Biden that was never afforded to Trump. As we say goodbye to his Presidency, it
is right that we should look at his accomplishments and ask which one was the
greatest?
. . .
Trump was unabashed in his love of
this Country. “Make America Great Again”, “Keep America Great” and “America
First” all have one thing in common: America. Every Trump rally, every truck
rally, every boat rally and every motorcycle rally was filled with happy
patriots waving the American flag. Admit it, it felt so good to be proud of
your country in public again.
Those are just the morale
accomplishments. The actual accomplishments listed by the White House are
breathtaking. Read them here.
Other columnists have suggested that President Trump’s greatest
accomplishment was pulling the masks off the corrupt Deep State and swamp-dwellers. Anyway, the rest of Ms. Williams’s column is
here.
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