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Veteran’s Day is tomorrow (today already for the East Coast people), and I know y’all want to go out and hit the sales, relax, sleep in and all that good shit that comes with a federal holiday.  Well LISTEN UP!!

Veteran’s Day is not like Labor Day, an excuse for everybody to not work.  It is the most important of the Federal Holidays on the schedule, with the possible exception of Memorial Day.  It is a day set aside to honor veterans who sacrificed their youth, their time, and maybe their health to serve our great nation.  If you consider yourself an American and you love your country, then you should consider the enormous debt you owe to veterans.  It is because of veterans and our active forces that you can send your children to school and go to work and be reasonably sure that the day will not end with a nuclear holocaust or some other attack.  Veterans are why 9/11 only happened on 9/11 and not since.  Veterans are the people who kept the shipping lanes safe for commerce to provide Americans with the lifestyle we enjoy in this country.  Veterans are the people who put their asses on the line in harms way in Iraq and Vietnam while you at home bitched about whether they should have been there in the first place.  Veterans are who stopped the Nazis and Japan in World War II, and who kept North Korea from overrunning South Korea.  Veterans are who liberated Kuwait.  Veterans ended the bloody stalemate of World War I.  If it wasn’t for our veterans – people who signed a contract, swore an oath, and stood willing to die for your freedom and prosperity – then this country would not be the great country that it is today.  While you’re out taking advantage of the great deals or sitting at home enjoying your day off, I want you to think of this.  Find a veteran, call a veteran you know (we ALL know at least one) and thank them for their service.  It’s the least you can do.  And make sure that every chance you get, you always support any legislation designed to help veterans, or support candidates who have the best record on veteran’s issues.  That’s the only thing that we – those who stood ready, who went into harms way, who may have fought and may have been wounded and may have seen friends die – ask of you.  God Bless America and God Bless our veterans.