Today is Veterans Day

Thank a Vet! Bryce really comes to my mind today. He and 10's of thousands more, were deployed for "as long as it took" not just a year or for a few months... WWII vets were there for a long time without any idea when or if they would return. In WWII there was over 16,000,000 total US service members in uniform and of those there were over 400,000 deaths. That war lasted about 4 years (1941-45).
The Gulf War there was about 2.2 million in uniform with just 147 deaths ( about 100 combat related) and lasted less that a year.
Todays War on Terror will be an ongoing war for "as long as it takes". Since 2001 the US has lost over lost 2000 serrvice members and hundreds of thousands have served. Thank a vet of this combat...No matter what your politics are!
A Little History...
Armistice Day Becomes Veterans Day
World War I officially ended on June 28, 1919, with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The actual fighting between the Allies and Germany, however, had ended seven months earlier with the armistice, which went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. Armistice Day, as November 11 became known, officially became a holiday in the United States in 1926, and a national holiday 12 years later. On June 1, 1954, the name was changed to Veterans Day to honor all U.S. veterans.
In 1968, new legislation changed the national commemoration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. It soon became apparent, however, that November 11 was a date of historic significance to many Americans. Therefore, in 1978 Congress returned the observance to its traditional date.