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Many businesses will be offering free stuff or discounts to veterans and active duty military on Friday the 11th -Veterans Day. If you are, or know a veteran, don’t let the day slip by without taking advantage. You deserve it! Most will require proof of service. Some participating restaurants include:
Applebee’s will say thank you to military members with a free meal November 11 (dine-in only).
Champps Americana Restaurant will offer free burgers to veterans and active-duty military November 11 at participating locations.
Chili’s is offering a free meal to veterans and active-duty military between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. November 11.
Denny’s will offer a free Grand Slam breakfast 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. November 11 in select restaurants in Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
But that’s just the beginning. Check out the list at Kiplinger. Link
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A tribute to our Armed Forces for Veteran’s Day from PostSecret, featuring postcards from military personnel and their families. -via Urlesque
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Today is the holiday we call Veterans Day in the US and Remembrance Day in Canada, but it was once Armistice Day, a day commemorating the end of World War I. How much do you know about the holiday and its history? Find out in today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. I scored 80%, better than the current average of 59%. Link
"The War to End All Wars" ended 91 years ago on the 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month in 1918. This became known as Armistice Day, and later as Veteran’s Day. For many, especially Americans, World War I has been practically forgotten as it is overshadowed by WWII in history classes, but WWI had a great impact on the 20th century and that impact lingers to this day. The nation of Iraq was created in the aftermath of the war, for example.
World War I in many ways was the “War to end all Wars” in that it was every war past and future rolled up into one. There were Napoleonic charges, aerial bombardment, a few misguided cavalry charges with actual horses, tanks, machine guns, artillery barrages, air combat, poison gas attacks, flamethrowers, submarine warfare, and primitive hand-to-hand fighting that came down to knives, sharpened spades, and clubs.
The trenches were hell on earth – mud, water, snipers, artillery barrages, barbed wire, machine gun fire, and the rotting corpses of those who fell in No-Man’s Land, the deadly area between the opposing armies’ trenches. Plus there was rampant disease, lice, and rats grown fat from feeding off of corpses.
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