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Veterans Day -- Posted by Admin on Sunday, November 11 2007
Veterans Day is an American holiday honoring military veterans. Both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is celebrated on the same day 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.)
Veterans Day is largely intended to thank veterans for their service, to acknowledge that their contributions to United States national security are appreciated, and to underscore the fact that all those who served - not only those who died - have sacrificed and done their duty.
mail server failure -- Posted by coranto on Friday, September 7 2007
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Save the U-534 -- Posted by coranto on Friday, September 7 2007
Save the Sub: U-534 to be cut up
U-534 after being raised in 1993
(9/4/2007)
Budd Davisson, Editor-in-Chief
The German U-boat, U-534, the casualty of a UK Liberator just a few weeks before the war ended, is about to be cut into several more manageable pieces by an UK entertainment company and the world is about to lose yet another major historical artifact. A petition is being circulated to hopefully prevent that.
After it was salvaged, almost entirely intact in 1993, the U-534 was supposed to be displayed in perpetuity at the Nautilus Maritime Museum in Birkenhead, Wirral (near Liverpool). With the increase in real estate values, however, high-rise condos seemed more important than this bigger-than-average historical artifact. Considering the time capsule of technology she represents and her rarity, she disserves better. Future generations disserve better.
I don’t know if the petition represented by the following link http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-and-preserve-the-historic-ww2-u-534-u-boat.html will do any good, but it’s better than nothing. The generations on both side of the largest conflict in history will be gone in a few years, unfortunately, an amazingly large percentage of the artifacts that tell us of that time have preceded them. Maybe this time we can think a little further ahead and not make a decision we’ll rue a few years down the road.
For more information, go to http://uboat.net/boats/u534.htm
To sign the petition, go here: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-and-preserve-the-historic-ww2-u-534-u-boat.html
mail server failure -- Posted by coranto on Friday, September 7 2007
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