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To all the vets, including former Buccos!

Some interesting events happened on Nov 11, prior to it officially becoming Veterans day.



First it is of course also Armistice Day, the day the Germans signed the agreement to end WW1. Obviously, this results in many commemorations in France and across the world.



Woodrow Wilson's address to the country on the first Armistice day:



ADDRESS TO FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN



The White House, November 11, 1919.



A year ago today our enemies laid down their arms in accordance with an armistice which rendered them impotent to renew hostilities, and gave to the world an assured opportunity to reconstruct its shattered order and to work out in peace a new and juster set of international relations. The soldiers and people of the European Allies had fought and endured for more than four years to uphold the barrier of civilization against the aggressions of armed force. We ourselves had been in the conflict something more than a year and a half.



With splendid forgetfulness of mere personal concerns, we remodeled our industries, concentrated our financial resources, increased our agricultural output, and assembled a great army, so that at the last our power was a decisive factor in the victory. We were able to bring the vast resources, material and moral, of a great and free people to the assistance of our associates in Europe who had suffered and sacrificed without limit in the cause for which we fought.



Out of this victory there arose new possibilities of political freedom and economic concert. The war showed us the strength of great nations acting together for high purposes, and the victory of arms foretells the enduring conquests which can be made in peace when nations act justly and in furtherance of the common interests of men.



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 nations.



WOODROW WILSON

Also on Nov 11, in 1921, was the first burial of an unidentified soldier, this one from WW1. We all know that the Tomb is guarded at all times, 365/24/7 by soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Regiment.



Did you know that the Tomb has no official name? Interesting.



There are remains of soldiers from WW1, WW2, and Korea (the Vietnam soldier was identified, leaving the crypt vacant.



On the back of the Tomb are the following:



Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God

If you ever get a chance to visit D.C. you must go and watch the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It is quite an extraordinary ceremony. I am sure you can see it on YouTube but being there in person much better.

Agree Possum!



Nice touch by BBRef.com, they added poppies for all vet players in the league.



https://www.baseball-reference.com/play ... ro01.shtml



Great contribution by SABR!