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Happy Veteran’s Day!
Check out our latest blog entry with a sneak peek of imagery from our trip.
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Emmanuel Macron of France went to Arlington on Veterans Day to lay a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Our own president couldn’t be bothered, because it was raining.
Merci bien, M Macron.
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Portrait of Lieutenant R.C. Lister, Canadian Field Artillery and recipient of the Military Cross. Date unknown.
Original image source: Canadian Library and Archives
GWICwill be posting one portrait each day until November 11th.
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It’s never too late to thank a veteran for our freedom! You can bet he will appreciate the blow job or hot fuck!
On this Veterans Day and every day, we thank our veterans for their service.
Veterans Day is Thursday, Nov. 11 and TCM has a great 24 hours of movies on the schedule.
The daytime lineup features films made by old Hollywood actors and directors who served in the military. The most bang for your buck is in the action film The Dirty Dozen (1967) at 3:30 pm ET/12:30 pm PT, which features a whopping eight World War II veterans, including Lee Marvin (Marines), Charles Bronson (Army Air Corps), and Ernest Borgnine (a veteran of both the U.S. Navy and McHale’s Navy).
The primetime lineup is equally good starting with director William Wyler’s masterpiece The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT, which is still the best film ever made about the effects of combat on those who served and on their loved ones. The late night lineup includes Gary Cooper’s Oscar-winning performance in Sergeant York (1941) at 1 am ET/10 pm PT.
Here’s the best of the rest for the week of Nov. 8:
1. The Band Wagon (1953) at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT Monday, Nov. 8: The early ‘50s were the golden age of old Hollywood musicals with literally dozens of all-time classics made within the space of four or five years. There’s lots and lots of great dance numbers to choose from, but the cream of the crop (at least in our book) is Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in “The Girl Hunt Ballet” in this wonderful backstage musical.
2. Bulldog Drummond marathon on Wednesday, Nov. 10: There’s nothing quite like a good classic-movie detective series to relax with on a cold autumn day. TCM is airing several Bulldog Drummond films on Wednesday starting at 8 am ET/5 am PT with The Return of Bulldog Drummond (1934) starring Sir Ralph Richardson as detective.
3. Flamingo Road (1949) at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT Wednesday, Nov. 10: This Southern-fried noir about a woman (Joan Crawford) who fights corruption in a small Florida town is one of our favorite guilty pleasures. Joanie’s battle with star-of-the-month Sydney Greenstreet (he Boss Hoggs it up as a small-town sheriff) is EPIC.
4. The French Connection (1971) at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT Saturday, Nov. 13: TCM is celebrating the 50th anniversary of this fantastic police procedural with a special airing on Saturday night. The French Connection is both an excellent flick for a night on the couch and one of the best auteur-driven films of the '70s.
BTW, It’s not old Hollywood, but Tuesday night’s lineup of Australian New Wave movies is beyond excellent. The lineup starts with Walkabout (1971) at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT.
Anna Coleman Ladd, Creator of Prosthetics For WW1 Veterans
Anna Coleman Ladd (1878-1939) was an American sculptor who founded the American Red Cross ‘Studio for Portrait-Masks’ in Paris, France.
She was born in Bryn Mawr, Philadelphia and educated in Europe, where she studied sculpture in Paris and Rome. In late 1917, Ladd moved to France with her husband, Dr. Maynard Ladd, who was appointed to direct the Children’s Bureau of the American Red Cross in Toul.
View More Photos Of Her Work With Veterans
It was at this time she was introduced to the work of Francis Derwent Wood in the “Masks for Facial Disfigurement Department” in Paris. After meeting with Wood, Ladd founded her iwn studio to provide cosmetic masks to be worn by men who had been badly disfigured in World War I
Soldiers would come to Ladd’s studio to have a cast made of their face and their features sculpted onto clay or plasticine. This form was then used to construct the prosthetic piece from extremely thin galvanized copper. The metal was painted to resemble the recipient’s skin.
Her services earned her the Legion d'Honneur Crois de Chevalier and the Serbian Order of Saint Sava.
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Dan Mouer in Vietnam in 1966. The magazine was sent by his wife, along with a batch of chocolate chip cookies.
Veterans Day was yesterday, November 11th. World War I formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.
I frequently take care of passengers who are veterans. Some are more obvious than others, wearing caps from the Vietnam or Korean Wars, prompting me to thank them for their service, some read books related to war, which prompts me to ask them if they served. The answer is usually yes, and again I thank them for their service. They almost always want to tell me a little story or two about their time in the military, and if the flight is long enough, it becomes a real conversation. Some passengers are disabled, and they frequently explain that the cause of their injury was the war. Often, those veterans are younger men and women who have been in hostile situations much more recently than the sixties.
I’ve met various men who are veterans, both online and in person. Some are still serving, in fact. They struggle to deal with the enormity of the situation in which they’ve been placed. But let Me be clear. That doesn’t mean they’re weak, it means they’re human. They have dreams and desires. And burdens that some members of our society cannot begin to comprehend.
Photo from article at:https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/opinion/how-playboy-explains-vietnam.html
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In response to Major John McCrae’s poem, In Flanders Field, Moina Bell Michael wrote the following excerpt:
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders’ Fields.
And now the torch and poppy red
Wear in honour of our dead
Fear not that ye have died for naught
We’ve learned the lesson that ye taught
In Flanders’ Fields.
We didn’t learn the lesson, but Moina began the custom of wearing a red poppy to remember ‘the blood of heroes’.
Starting as an American tradition, it soon became adopted in Great Britain. Anyone in the limelight not wearing a poppy pin has caused a scandal (even recently in the news).
Read more about the history and dos and don'ts of poppy etiquette HERE.
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Today is Veteran’s Day. This holiday, as many other pro-military holidays in the U.S., is usually seen as a day that our oppressors, especially those in the church, celebrate.
However, Veteran’s Day is also a day for the oppressed as many of the oppressed, people of color, women, queer folk, and trans folk, have served in the military.
Remember ALL that have served. For ALL have sacrificed.
Mental Health is a huge issue for veterans as many struggle with PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, and many end up committing suicide. If you are a veteran struggling with mental health or in a crisis, you can reach out for help here.
If there are any veterans in your life, reach out to them. Every day, but especially today, especially in today’s society.
Much love, Beloved.
Buzzy, Cranium Command quick sketch
Happy Veterans Day to all those who have served! Just a few of my fave pics for you!
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tomholland2013 Week 5 of Cherry and we have had the honour of working with, and hearing the stories of some of Cleveland’s Veterans. It’s been a humbling experience getting to know you all and thank you so much for your support and service. #veteransday
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Honor and Remembrance….
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Veterans Day(originally known as Armistice Day) is a federal holiday in the United States….observed annually on November 11….honoring military veterans – all persons who have served in the United States Armed Forces(and were discharged under honorable conditions).
>>Note – A large number of local jurisdictions and school districts across America no longer honor veterans on this day. They prefer to save the “day off” for a shopping day the Friday after Thanksgiving. At least we veterans know we served to preserve the right to shop.
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ICYMI, our new partnership with Manual Cinema in honor of 100 years since the end of World War I is here! Three World War I Poems brings a selection of poems to life with innovative paper puppetry and animation work, each vignette sharing a different experience of “the war to end all wars” from a soldier’s point of view.
[video: Three interwoven vignettes of interpretations of “The Owl” by Edward Thomas, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, and “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae.]
thanks to those that served. happy veteran’s day.
for veteran’s day.
solo sessions, january 17, 1995
Obit of the Day (Historical): Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (1921)
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers (also called The Tomb of the Unknowns) was dedicated on November 11, 1921 with a funeral and internment of the body of an unidentifiable serviceman killed on the battlefields of France during World War II.
Following the lead of England and France, the United States Congress passed a bill on March 4, 1921 establishing a tomb for an “unknown soldier.” On Memorial Day of that year four bodies were exhumed from four different WWI battlefields. After all precautions were taken to ensure that the soldiers were American and completely unidentifiable, U.S. Army Sgt. Edward F. Younger, a WWI veteran was given the honor of selecting the body that would be entombed.
On October 24, Sgt. Younger made the selection in an elaborate ceremony with representatives of France and the U.S. in attendance. The four caskets were placed in a room and Sgt. Younger approached them, circled the display twice and placed a small bouqet of roses on the casket third from the left. He then saluted. The first unknown soldier was selected.
The soldier’s remains were transported by ship and arrived in the United States on November 9, 1921. Two days later, the body, now in Washington, D.C., was honored with a procession through the city, carried on a horse-led caisson, draped in the U.S. flag and escorted by veterans of WWI. President Harding, Vice-President Coolidge, and countless other dignitaries walked behind the casket as it traveled up Pennsylvania Avenue.
President Harding spoke at the official funeral ceremony and the soldier was honored with the U.S. Medal of Honor and Distinguished Service Cross. Delegations representing U.S. allies in the war also presented the soldier with the highest military honors they could bestow: Belgian Croix de Guerre, English Victoria Cross, French Medaille Militaire & Croix de Guerre, Italian Gold Medal for Bravery, Romanian Virtutes Militara, Czechoslavak War Cross, and Polish Virtuti Militari.
The Unknown Soldier of World War I would remain alone for 36 years until he was joined by the unknown soldiers of World War II and Korea on May 30, 1958 in a ceremony led by President Dwight Eisenhower. Another quarter-century later on Memorial Day 1984 President Ronald Reagan spoke at the burial of an unknown soldier from the Vietnam War. (Using DNA, the Vietnam soldier was identified in 1998 as Air Force 1st Lt. Michael J. Blassie. He was disinterred and reburied by his family. The Vietnam section of the tomb remains empty. DNA has also made it unlikely any other soldiers will be buried in the tomb.)
The tomb is under constant surveillance by the Tomb Guards, members of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, who are stationed in Fort Meyers, Virginia. The position is highly sought after and has such a stringent selection process that it has become the second most difficult qualification badge to earn in the military - after astronaut.
Note: The guards where no rank insignia so they will not outrank the soldiers buried in the tomb.
The President of the United States honors those entombed annually with a ceremony and wreath-laying every Memorial and Veterans Day.
Sources:Society of the Honor Guard of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier,Arlington National Cemetery, and Wikipedia
Images from the parade, funeral, and internment of the original unknown soldier on November 11, 1921:
Top - Caisson passing down Pennsylvania Avenue during the funeral procession, 11/11/21, courtesy of the Old Guard Museum on Flickr
Middle - President Harding speaking at the funeral and internment of the unknown soldier, 11/11/21, courtesy of www.arlingtoncemetery.net
Bottom - Final internment of the casket of the unknown soldier, 11/11/21, courtesy of weta.org
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Obit of the Day: Veterans Day 2015
It’s OOTD’s 5th Annual Veterans Day post honoring the men and women who served in the Armed Forces and were featured over the past year. Apologies for the shorter list this year but my unintended sabbatical resulted in many fewer posts.
Sonia D’Artois - The last living British spy of World War II
Francis Goldcamp - Winner of five Air Medals in WWII
Robert Hite - One of the last of the Doolittle Raiders
Joseph Langdell - The oldest living survivor of the USS Arizona
Bill Schreck - The man who dropped the last U.S. bomb of WWII
Lowell Steward - Tuskegee Airman
Alex Vraicu - One of the greatest fighter pilots of WWII
Eldridge Williams - Trained Tuskegee Airmen to fly
Also read through OOTD’s previous Veterans Day posts:
Poster images is courtesy of the U.S. Veterans Administration
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“Today, as we all know, is a very special day for all Americans. But to those of us who are veterans ourselves, it has a very special and added meaning,” President Ford said in his Veterans Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery in 1974. “Memories come back of families and old comrades–of distant days and places from the past. Some of those friends are still with us, sharing in the challenges of peace, just as they did their duty in wartime. Others we shall never see again. But they, especially, are here with us in spirit in the shadow of the Tomb of the Unknowns.”
This Veterans Day marks the 100th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Learn more about the history of this iconic memorial through this new exhibit from the National Archives on Google Arts and Culture: https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/100th-anniversary-of-the-tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier/swISrH8agbdiKQ
Read President Ford’s speech cards for his 1974 Veterans Day remarks: https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0122/1252116.pdf
Image: President Gerald R. Ford and Major General Frederic Davison Saluting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during a Veterans Day Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, 10/28/1974 (National Archives Identifier 23869125, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23869125)
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Wishing all the Vets a Happy Veterans Day!
