Ace Boobtoucher
Founder and Captain of the Douchepatrol
On November 11, 1919, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson issued a message to his countrymen on the first Armistice Day in which he expressed what he felt the day meant to Americans:
"ADDRESS TO FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN The White House, November 11, 1919. A year ago today our enemies laid down their arms in accordance with an armistice which rendered them impotent to renew hostilities, and gave to the world an assured opportunity to reconstruct its shattered order and to work out in peace a new and juster set of inter national relations. The soldiers and people of the European Allies had fought and endured for more than four years to uphold the barrier of civilization against the aggressions of armed force. We ourselves had been in the conflict something more than a year and a half. - With splendid forgetfulness of mere personal concerns, we re modeled our industries, concentrated our financial resources, increased our agricultural output, and assembled a great army, so that at the last our power was a decisive factor in the victory. We were able to bring the vast resources, material and moral, of a great and free people to the assistance of our associates in Europe who had suffered and sacrificed without limit in the cause for which we fought. Out of this victory there arose new possibilities of political freedom and economic concert. The war showed us the strength of great nations acting together for high purposes, and the victory of arms foretells the enduring conquests which can be made in peace when nations act justly and in furtherance of the common interests of men. To us in America the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with - solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service, and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of nations. WOODROW WILSON."
Today I marched in the Las Vegas Veteran's Day parade with my brother Knights of Columbus. And it was much more fun than I had imagined, except for a couple power mad, humorless parade marshals who insisted that handing out Tootsie Rolls on the parade route was a violation of city ordnance (they were totally correct, but they didn't need to be dicks about it). A Raptor from Nellis did a flyover in afterburner and it gave me the biggest freedom boner. I got to meet Dean Heller. Afterwards, several of us went to Silver Ridge Health Center to present the Colors and have pizza and ice cream with several convalescent veterans. It was a good day.
The commander of our Color Corps keeps pressuring me to join. I won't. I don't like the plumed chapeau.
Thank you to all of our valiant and loyal veterans. It's because of our sacrifices that we get to enjoy the freedoms this country offers, especially the shit show of the recent election. May God bless you and keep you and may the burdens of this shitty world lay lightly on your shoulders.
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"ADDRESS TO FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN The White House, November 11, 1919. A year ago today our enemies laid down their arms in accordance with an armistice which rendered them impotent to renew hostilities, and gave to the world an assured opportunity to reconstruct its shattered order and to work out in peace a new and juster set of inter national relations. The soldiers and people of the European Allies had fought and endured for more than four years to uphold the barrier of civilization against the aggressions of armed force. We ourselves had been in the conflict something more than a year and a half. - With splendid forgetfulness of mere personal concerns, we re modeled our industries, concentrated our financial resources, increased our agricultural output, and assembled a great army, so that at the last our power was a decisive factor in the victory. We were able to bring the vast resources, material and moral, of a great and free people to the assistance of our associates in Europe who had suffered and sacrificed without limit in the cause for which we fought. Out of this victory there arose new possibilities of political freedom and economic concert. The war showed us the strength of great nations acting together for high purposes, and the victory of arms foretells the enduring conquests which can be made in peace when nations act justly and in furtherance of the common interests of men. To us in America the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with - solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service, and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of nations. WOODROW WILSON."
Today I marched in the Las Vegas Veteran's Day parade with my brother Knights of Columbus. And it was much more fun than I had imagined, except for a couple power mad, humorless parade marshals who insisted that handing out Tootsie Rolls on the parade route was a violation of city ordnance (they were totally correct, but they didn't need to be dicks about it). A Raptor from Nellis did a flyover in afterburner and it gave me the biggest freedom boner. I got to meet Dean Heller. Afterwards, several of us went to Silver Ridge Health Center to present the Colors and have pizza and ice cream with several convalescent veterans. It was a good day.
The commander of our Color Corps keeps pressuring me to join. I won't. I don't like the plumed chapeau.
Thank you to all of our valiant and loyal veterans. It's because of our sacrifices that we get to enjoy the freedoms this country offers, especially the shit show of the recent election. May God bless you and keep you and may the burdens of this shitty world lay lightly on your shoulders.
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