Friday, 11 November
2011, 1930-2200*
@ Double T
Diner
It's Friday, it's 11-11-11,
and it's Veterans Day! What better reason to get
together with your fellow geocachers?
Team Red Oak is hosting a couple
"flash mob" type events at 11 AM & 11 PM. Since this is
not just a numerically interesting date, I thought it would be
appropriate to host a full scale meet & greet on the behalf of
the Military Association of GeoCachers.
After this event, maybe we can
grab a few caches on the way down the road for Team Red Oak's
"After Dark" event.
Their menu and additional
information is available on their website.
Per Wikipedia - Veterans Day
is an annual United States holiday honoring military veterans. A
federal holiday, it is observed on November 11. It is also
celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of
the world, falling on November 11, the anniversary of the signing
of the Armistice that ended World War I. (Major hostilities of
World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of
the 11th month of 1918 with the German signing of the
Armistice.)
The holiday is commonly printed as Veteran's Day or Veterans' Day
in calendars and advertisements. While these spellings are
grammatically acceptable, the United States government has declared
that the attributive (no apostrophe) rather than the possessive
case is the official spelling.
The U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed an Armistice Day
for November 11, 1919. In proclaiming the holiday, he said,
"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."
The United States Congress passed a concurrent resolution seven
years later on June 4, 1926, requesting that the President Calvin
Coolidge issue another proclamation to observe November 11 with
appropriate ceremonies. An Act approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th
of November in each year a legal holiday;
"a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be
thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day'."
In 1953, an Emporia, KS man named Alvin King, the owner of a shoe
repair shop, had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all
veterans, not just those who died in World War I. With the
help of U.S. Representative Ed Rees, also from Emporia, a bill for
the holiday was pushed through Congress. President Dwight
Eisenhower signed it into law on May 26, 1954. Congress
amended this act on June 1, 1954, replacing "Armistice" with
"Veterans," and it has been known as Veterans Day
since.
* 7:30 - 10:00 PM