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Kari said:

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Mine passed 20 years ago and I still miss her, always will.

Kari said:

I hope you are OK, Dude!

Im fine, waiting to hear about my car

A Guy said:

Sorry to hear that Doug. Many a member at the Challenger forum I belong to have intercepted a deer...not pretty

A Guy

Thanks, last year a Deer T-Boned me and I got it fixed. This one was head on

Doug just be glad you don't live in Maine, they have Moose!

Cliff S said:

Doug just be glad you don't live in Maine, they have Moose!

Or in northern Ontario, I dodged few of those. One just stood in the middle of the road and wouldn't budge for a while, everybody had to go around him. Boy, was that a big one.

Dude said:

Im fine, waiting to hear about my car

Thanks, last year a Deer T-Boned me and I got it fixed. This one was head on

A little belatedly, Doug, our local ABC station advised if hitting a deer is imminent, slow down as slow as you can and go ahead and hit it head on.

Don't know if I'd have the guts to do that, but . . .

Wynona said:

A little belatedly, Doug, our local ABC station advised if hitting a deer is imminent, slow down as slow as you can and go ahead and hit it head on.

Don't know if I'd have the guts to do that, but . . .

I did that not by choice, happened quick, It rolled up and hit the windshield. I thought it was gonna come through. Glass held, front end of the car not so much

Dude said:

I did that not by choice, happened quick, It rolled up and hit the windshield. I thought it was gonna come through. Glass held, front end of the car not so much

Oh, my! There would have been a cleaning bill on top of everything else for me!

Happy Veterans Day to my fellow Americans.

Happy Armistice Day to all others.


Veterans Day in the US, used to be called Armistice Day, which my Grandfather always called it.

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 international 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 remodeled 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

Veterans Day - Wikipedia

Just been watching the ceremony at the Cenotaph in London. Very moving.