Open Thread and Diary Rescue

(Tonight's selections are brought to you courtesy of the Rescue Rangers. SusanG)

This evening's Rescue Rangers are claude, ezdidit, grog, pico, Rippen Kitten, TruthOfAngels, watercarrier4diogenes, and Wes Opinion, with srkp23 as editor.

• Does anyone remember that Veterans Day started out as Armistice Day? FischFry gives us a reminder of the original reason Nov. 11th was set aside as a national holiday in The End of All Wars - 89 Years Ago, Today. (Wes Opinion)
• The Killer Awoke Before Dawn, from blueness, honors our veterans of wars of the 20th Century ... and the 21st. (ezdidit)
• Randgrithr reminds us of the sacrifices our citizens make when shipped off to war in Honoring the vets today, starting with my family. (grog)
• Jeff Huber commends the service of involuntary veterans, both the casualties and injured, like himself, in Breakfast of Veterans. (ezdidit)
• AmericanRiverCanyon righteously pummels our do-nothing Congress by merely describing their actions as they prepare for this coming four-day weekend and their journey Home for the Holiday. (claude)
• The genesis of Veteran's Day (Armistice Day), The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. . ., is thoughtfully recounted by Dave925. (watercarrier4diogenes)
• Bastoche continues an analysis of the Kagan family and neoconservatism in History and the Kagans: Paradise and Power VI. (TruthOfAngels)
• In The Romans Dealt With Subpoena No-Shows, cskendrick recounts the whoopass roots of our system of laws, justice and governance. (ezdidit)
• In Domestic Spying, Congress, Orwell, and the GDR, achilles examines present day domestic surveillance and the film The Lives of Others. (Rippen Kitten)
• Poetic in its simple elegance, kep and kampot is a vignette of personal history from blklikeme that is worthy of your brief attention. (claude)

monkeybiz brings Top Comments: For Those Who Have Given Much.

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