VFW Post 7234 to mark Veterans Day on Friday | Lifestyle

The significance of honoring veterans “who unselfishly positioned their lives on the road for our freedom” will likely be emphasised when Jim Jensen, senior vice commander of the Veterans of Overseas Wars Submit 7234 in Ocean View, speaks on the Veterans’ Day ceremony on the submit, at 29265 Marshy Hope Method.

Deliberate for 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 11, the occasion will honor veterans, their spouses and households. The general public is welcome.

Jensen, an Ocean View resident who served within the U.S. Navy, and in Vietnam, from 1967 to 1969, titled his remarks “Ideas on Veterans’ Day.”

“On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the combating of World Warfare I ended, in 1918. As a result of conclusion of the struggle, Nov. 11 turned acknowledged as a day of celebration,” Jensen advised the Coastal Level, including that it was initially generally known as Armistice Day.

In 1954, after World Warfare II and the Korean Warfare, it was renamed.

“As we speak we honor all our veterans who unselfishly positioned their lives on the road for our freedom. … They have been extraordinary folks till they heard the decision of obligation and left their households and their lives to combat to guard our nation and keep our lifestyle,” he mentioned, referring to his ready remarks.

“Allow us to salute those that are at present combating for our freedoms. The struggle on terrorism has helped us acknowledge how distinctive and particular our freedom is, and we should defend it, to not solely honor those that are combating, however for every of us to participate in defending it,” he mentioned.

Each American shares in that obligation, though it isn’t essential to affix the U.S. Military “to defend our lifestyle,” he mentioned.

“We are able to defend our freedom by sustaining it right here in America. We should put our freedoms into motion by voting, and ensure everybody feels the liberty, by volunteering in our communities and instructing our youngsters what it actually means to be an American,” he mentioned, including that Veterans Day is a “day to recollect, to start our journey and to guard our freedom of many generations to return.”

The ceremony will even embrace singing of the nationwide anthem by VFW Division of Delaware vocalist Jennifer Carter, invocation by Submit Chaplain John Mitchell, veteran poem by Frank Bolen, Presentation of Quilts of Valor by Dana Mason and Marguerite Niemoeller of the Quilts of Valor Basis, and introduction of company together with state Sen. Gerald Hocker, state Rep. Ron Grey, Sussex County Councilman Doug Hudson, Bethany Seaside Mayor Rosemary Hardiman and Ocean View Mayor John Reddington.

“Veterans Day is a day to honor all of America’s veterans, previous and current,” Reddington advised the Coastal Level this week.

“It’s a approach to thank households for the companies of their little children, fathers and moms, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, husbands and wives, cousins and associates, regardless of the place they served, abroad or at residence. And it’s a day to say to a vet, ‘Welcome residence.’”

The veterans’ poem, “All I Did Was Combat a Warfare,” was written by Bolen, who served within the Third Marine Division 2/4 in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969.

He wrote, partially, “On Monday, Memorial Day, I went to the Ocean Pines Memorial on Route 589. They inform me it’s my memorial, it was constructed to honor all veterans. All I did was combat a struggle. I regarded round and noticed a number of flags flying excessive and proud, the brick partitions and pavers with all of the names on them, a few of my associates are there with a star subsequent to their identify which implies they by no means made it. They inform me all that’s for me. All I did was combat a struggle.

“As I sat within the fourth row I regarded up and noticed me in 20 years. There have been eight former POWs from WW2. I believed to myself, ‘I ponder how they made it and actually what they needed to do. I can’t think about their previous. All I did was combat a struggle.’

“I regarded over to my left within the entrance row. There have been 4 Gold Star moms. I considered their lives and what they’ve lived with shedding a husband, son or daughter, how arduous daily should be. All I did was combat a struggle.

“Nobody asks to go to struggle and nobody comes again the identical. I typically surprise who I might be if I by no means went to struggle. I ponder how these 4 gold star moms’ lives could be totally different. I ponder what number of sleepless nights these POWs have had. I ponder why so many individuals make a giant deal out of us ‘Nam vets. All I did was combat a struggle.”