sad_dog Without you and your efforts, millions of American cats and dogs would be just a bit sicker today. So, well done all of you vets out there. I am not sure why you get a specific day, but what the hay, everyone should have their own day shouldn’t they? Next up, Tee-Tee Days. Get your mind out of the gutter, TeeTee is for all those Tree Trimmers out there who risk life and limb. They need a day, too.

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Sorry, Veterans. You are special, but not just this one day. Every frickin day.

Side note. For those of you too young to remember, in a few days, on November 19, we will not celebrate Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. If you have not read it lately, I’d recommend you read it over once again. Brilliant. As you read it, remember that over 57,000…Fifty-Seven thousand Union and Confederate soldiers…died in that one battle, over three days. (52,000 Americans died in the entire VietNam War)

Since many will not click or jump to the Gettsburg Address link, here it is in its entirety. If you can’t thank a veteran today personally…and chances are good you work with one….at least read this speech.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.