Armistice Day

Lest We Forget!

[leo]

As a veteran, I naturally believe that our veterans should be honored for their services to their country. But, I wish that we had kept Armistice Day as it was. When I was a kid it was the holiday I enjoyed most. Aree there others out there who remember the assemblies and parades that had as their theme a hope for peace? Perhaps it was a naive hope, but I belived it to be genuine.

leo

[Dan_San_Abbott]

Leo:
I remember Armistice Day, and the orange paper poppies. The parades with U.S Army and Navy units marching, to band music. In some of the early parades they had Civil War veterans as honored guests riding in cars. That was San Francisco and Oakland California. November 11 was a very special day. The first that I can rember was 1928.
Blue skies,
Dan-San Abbott

[leo]

I remeber the 1939 parade as my first memory of that event. They had several Civil War vets in a car. My Opa was a Spanish- American War vet and he marched as well with a group of his comrades. It seemed as though the parade lasted for hours with all kinds of marching bands and patriotic organizations.

leo