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EVENING FOR THE VETERAN OF THE VETERAN SHARE OF THE DAY
Too often, holidays pass without much consideration for the origins or significance of the date being recognized. Veterans Day is no exception.
At VA Claims Insider, we’re 100% focused on veterans every day of the year, but on Veterans Day 2023, we feel it’s important to take time to honor those who served and understand how this day of observance was established.
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Too often, holidays pass without much consideration for the origins or significance of the date being recognized. Veterans Day is no exception.
At VA Claims Insider, we’re 100% focused on veterans every day of the year, but on Veterans Day 2023, we feel it’s important to take time to honor those who served and understand how this day of observance was established.
Also, be sure to check out our 2023 Guide to the BEST Veterans Day Freebies!
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk SGT Charlie Lee] Sgt (Join to see) PV2 Larry Sellnow SPC (Join to see) Amn Dale Preisach SGT Ruben Lozada 1SG Patrick Burke PO2 Marco Monsalve Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Kim Patterson] SFC Ralph E Kelley SPC (Join to see) SSG William Jones Maj Ronald Scarpa SSG Paul Endes PO1 Lyndon Thomas
Veterans Day 2023
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Thanks for sharing this Joe. Considering Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day it certainly falls into that forgotten significance category.
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In remembrance of Veterans Day
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
John McCrae
1915
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
John McCrae
1915
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MSG Stan Hutchison
And here is one of mine;
November Eleventh, 1918 was
The end of the war to end all wars
And how do we now celebrate that day?
With big sales in all the stores
We dont take the time to honor
Those veterans who fell in fight
Were too busy in our everyday life
To give them what is their right
In Flanders, Verdun, and Normandy
Under green fields their bodies lay
At Baatan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa
Many graves still not found today
At the Chosin Reservoir, Inchon, The Yalu River
At Khe Sanh, the A-Shau, at Pleiku
In Somalia, Bosnia, Kuwait, and Baghdad
Those warriors served for me and for you
These soldiers went to those lands to fight
To protect the American way
In Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world
They are serving, still, today
Department store sales and specials
Is not what this day is for
Go out and pay the homage due
To those who fell in war
Or go to your local Veterans Hospital
Volunteer to help, to share
Some time with those old soldiers
Show that, in fact, you care
This is not a day for shopping
For specials at the local mall
Its a day for everyone to give thanks
To the ones who answered the call
Its not just another day off for us
Its a day to show the respect deserved
Please open your heart and remember
Veterans Day is to honor those who served.
Stan Hutchison
10 November 2002
November Eleventh, 1918 was
The end of the war to end all wars
And how do we now celebrate that day?
With big sales in all the stores
We dont take the time to honor
Those veterans who fell in fight
Were too busy in our everyday life
To give them what is their right
In Flanders, Verdun, and Normandy
Under green fields their bodies lay
At Baatan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa
Many graves still not found today
At the Chosin Reservoir, Inchon, The Yalu River
At Khe Sanh, the A-Shau, at Pleiku
In Somalia, Bosnia, Kuwait, and Baghdad
Those warriors served for me and for you
These soldiers went to those lands to fight
To protect the American way
In Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world
They are serving, still, today
Department store sales and specials
Is not what this day is for
Go out and pay the homage due
To those who fell in war
Or go to your local Veterans Hospital
Volunteer to help, to share
Some time with those old soldiers
Show that, in fact, you care
This is not a day for shopping
For specials at the local mall
Its a day for everyone to give thanks
To the ones who answered the call
Its not just another day off for us
Its a day to show the respect deserved
Please open your heart and remember
Veterans Day is to honor those who served.
Stan Hutchison
10 November 2002
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Sgt Sheri Lynn
MSG Stan Hutchison thank you for sharing your writing. This is very important and powerful. I take your words to heart
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IN FLANDERS FIELDS - Anthony Hutchcroft
http://www.flandersfieldsmusic.com/Please leave a comment about this music video. In Flanders Fields poem by John McCrae; music and vocal by Anthony Hutchcro...
My mother was born in 1918. I remember her reciting, "In Flanders Fields" to me when I was 7 or 8 years old. I didn't understand but I knew from Mother's serious tone of voice that it was important. Here's a link to a stirring song of "In Flanders Fields:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky2WKqmrnnI&list=RDKy2WKqmrnnI.
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"At VA Claims Insider, we’re 100% focused on veterans every day. . . ."
The only thing "At VA Claims Insider. . . ." was focused on for 15 1/2 years was DENYING my claim and appeals for service-connected disabilities. At the 15 1/2 mark, I got a phone call from a rater who said he was rating me as 100% disabled secondary to unemployability. He said the reason he was calling, personally, was because my disability compensation claim should have been correctly rated "years ago" and he wanted to apologize.
The only thing "At VA Claims Insider. . . ." was focused on for 15 1/2 years was DENYING my claim and appeals for service-connected disabilities. At the 15 1/2 mark, I got a phone call from a rater who said he was rating me as 100% disabled secondary to unemployability. He said the reason he was calling, personally, was because my disability compensation claim should have been correctly rated "years ago" and he wanted to apologize.
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