What are you doing for Veterans Day, assuming you have the day off...America, GO!

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I will be doing homework and possibly watching the entire Indiana Jones box-set.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

working, stock market is open therefore im at the office.

― Chris Hungus (Chris V), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Cleaning up the place, setting fire to the house to cleanse it of evil spirits if need be. This will probably take all day.

― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Monday, 10 November 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Oddly enough, my apartment complex is giving me a free carpet cleaning today, so tomorrow -- which I do have off, happily -- I will probably follow that up with some general reorganization here and there, as well as firing off some interview questions to a couple of bands and listening to a lot of my new purchases over the weekend.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Retaking Ypres.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Alright, what the hell is 'Ypres'?

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Monday, 10 November 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Town in NE France (or possibly Belgium) which was major site of successive battles in WW1 (fer the Brits).

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 10 November 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I work tomorrow. Fuckers. But then I'm goin' home and doing yard work and recording whatever song I leave off on tonight.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 10 November 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Thinking about actually attending ceremony. My grandfather died last summer and he was a proud vet, so I don't know. Sentimental or something.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 November 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a holiday this week?

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Monday, 10 November 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Texas doesn't take Veteran's Day off?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 10 November 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

It's Veterans' Day! Call your grandpa!

― kingfish cold slither (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 11 November 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

do you have a ouija board?

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 November 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

What's the area code for Canada again?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 11 November 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

I should call my dad, but I've already told him I appreciate his service once in this lifetime, and that's enough mushy stuff between the two of us.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Friday, 11 November 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm hoping to get out of work early - there are three attorneys here, no one is doing any work, the phones aren't ringing, the courts are closed, we won't get any mail, whathefuckisthepoint?

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 11 November 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Depends... are you salaried or hourly wage?

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Friday, 11 November 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

All the actual real live veterans and reservists who make up 90% of my office's staff are here at work! Fuck shit.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 11 November 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for potentially getting shot at for yer country, tombot & blount!

― kingfish cold slither (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

Ask not who your country can shoot for you, but for whom you can shoot for your country.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:45 (twenty years ago)

do we have any other veterans among us?

― kingfish cold slither (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

My dad wanted to serve during Vietnam but couldn't (that "only surviving male" rule type thing). So... not on this end, not in the immediate family. I do have tons of uncles who served in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, though. And I currently have cousins serving in Iraq, so they're future veterans. (Hopefully.)

I didn't have today off, BTW. I don't think very many places did... ?

― This Field Left Blank (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 12 November 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

Everybody always forgets Chuck Eddy! Army! Duh.

― TOMBOT, Saturday, 12 November 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

my dad's a veteran. except he was in fuckin' GERMANY during the vietnam war. working on univacs and going to rock shows.

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 12 November 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

jody dad, far left

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 12 November 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

Work.

― Nathalie, the Queen of Frock 'n' Fall (stevie nixed), Saturday, 12 November 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

This thread has reminded me that I had reasonably-close relatives die in both WW1 and WW2, so I probably should have at least *thought* about them yesterday.

(a great-great-uncle who lied about his age and was Missing, Presumed Dead whilst fighting the Turks somewhere in the Middle East - we've never bothered researching more details; and a great-uncle who was a RAF radio operator, killed when his Lancaster was shot down over Germany.)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 12 November 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

#VeteransDay #USA #ThankYou #soldiers #Respect #sacrifice #service

― mookieproof, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:40 (twelve years ago)

Now that the USA has a 'volunteer' armed forces and no conscription, soldiers, sailors, and the other services are treated a bit less like lumps of putty than when there was a draft and an endless fresh supply of warm bodies shoveled into the hopper, so they do see some perks in exchange for enlisting. But this whole patriotic rah-rah of "our nation pays tribute to our brave men and women in uniform" is just so much blather. It's like being handed a shiny new dime by your boss and then you're expected to beam in an excess of gratitude.

― Hoogste Punt van Nederland (Aimless), Monday, 11 November 2013 18:55 (twelve years ago)

why does the US call it Veterans Day when it's rememberance day everywhere else?

― taxi tomato or bag tomato (Trayce), Monday, 11 November 2013 22:05 (twelve years ago)

I guess that's more like US Memorial Day

― Brad C., Monday, 11 November 2013 22:07 (twelve years ago)

was originally armistice day but they decided to change it a while back just to dishonor our WWI veterans

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 11 November 2013 22:30 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

something about jingoism of veterans day bothers me. i think things like slashing budgets for veteran services and trying to cover up the real damages and frequency of ptsd is bullshit obviously but i really don't like how this day is couched in "thank you for protecting our country and our freedoms" jingoistic garbage

― marcos, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 17:23 (eleven years ago)

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