Armed Forces Day May 18th

[Tom-ADC]

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[Harter66]

Bigest weekend of the yr in Hawthorme .

Thank You all for your service.

[472x1B/A]

I too want to thank each and every one that served this country in its Armed Forces. Thank you very much.

472x1B/A
Retired E-6 U.S. Air Force

[popper]

Don't think anybody in Dallas even knows or remembers it.

[reloaderman1]

Don't think anybody in Dallas even knows or remembers it.

Sadly, the same here in San Angelo, I was the only one on my street flying the flag!:(

[Bad Water Bill]

I am the only one on the block that EVER flys a flag or is a vet.

BTW the block is 1/4 mile long.

[Boz330]

Bill, unfortunately I think that is a sign of the future. Unlike our generation where probably 50% of the male population served it is only single digit percentage now days.
A picture from ages past, Armed Forces Day 1967, Demo Jump into the main Parade Ground Ft. Knox, KY. PFC Me on the right.

Bob

[TheDoctor]

We actually had a long drill this weekend. Didn't hear a single person mention it. Only heard grumbling about the stupid classes we had to take, that we shouldn't have to take.....

[Ickisrulz]

I had never heard of this day until recently. That includes my 20+ years in the Air Force. Well, maybe I did and just thought it was an AAFES sale or something. It certainly wasn't well promoted. Now Veteran's day and Memorial Day...I've heard of those.

[Boz330]

I never heard of it till I was in the Army. They always celebrated it while I was in but that was a looooong time ago. I checked my desk calendar and it is listed on it. I usually don't remember it like Veterans day though.

Bob

[popper]

What is it? --President Harry S. Truman led the effort to establish a single holiday for citizens to come together and thank our military members for their patriotic service in support of our country. On August 31, 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force Days.
The single day celebration stemmed from the unification of the Armed Forces under the Department of Defense.
So now we know.

In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…"
President Eisenhower signing HR7786, changing Armistice Day to Veterans Day. The first Veterans Day under the new law was observed with much confusion on October 25, 1971. President Gerald R. Ford signed Public Law 94-97 (89 Stat. 479), which returned the annual observance of Veterans Day to its original date of November 11, beginning in 1978.