There are a few of those dinners on the near horizon. Thanksgiving will find Computerman at his sister's home enjoying cold beer, good football, and slow cooked turkey along with a ham and wild salmon that will be smoked all night. Now dacomputerman has a mouth that sure is watering as Fox News Channel, not football, drones on in the background. Would someone pass the corn bread and baked beans, please?
Santa will be coming to visit soon, and the big man likes to eat. He needs to eat! No one, not even Santa, can fly around in an open sleigh at 30,000 feet with a skinny anorexic butt. It is just too cold at that altitude any time of year let alone Christmas Eve, and no one likes to eat alone. Besides eggnog always goes down better when shared well spiked.... uh spiced. So, you know the website design shop has to shut down in order to be a good host to the old fella'. Please pass the cranberry sauce and ma's deviled eggs.
One of the official holidays that stops everything at Computer Man's Website Design and Promotion is celebrated at the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month - Veteran's Day.
"Ike" did a lot for his country. The 5 star general's leadership in the big war was indispensable. The President's leadership after world war II was paramount. Dwight David Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 ? March 28, 1969) gave us the interstate highway system we enjoy today. He also gave us Veteran's Day. Please pass the potato salad and gravy.
November 11, is the anniversary of the Armistice which was signed in the Forest of Compiegne by the Allies and the Germans in 1918, ending World War I, after four years of conflict. It went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. Armistice Day, as November 11 became known, officially became a holiday in the United States in 1926, and a national holiday 12 years later. On June 1, 1954, under President Eisenhower's leadership the name was changed to Veterans Day to honor all U.S. veterans.
Dacomputerman used to break out the old smoker and do it up right on Veterans Day. Then seven years ago in 2000 the Golden Corral Restaurant Chain hosted a free Military Appreciation Day Dinner for military personnel and veterans. They have hosted the event every year since on the first Monday after Veterans Day.
Golden Corral serves an average of about 300,000 free military and veteran dinners each year at a cost of approximately $1,800,000.00 while raising about $300,000.00 each year for the DAV (Disabled Veterans Organization).
Everyone knows that Tennessee Mountain Men can and do eat. Why? Maybe it's because their women can cook. Momma's southern fried cooking sure is better than MRE (meals ready to eat) which trumped c-rations and k-rations although we ate our share of both back in the day.
Communication and health issues almost caused Computerman to miss the 2007 Golden Corral Military Appreciation Dinner. The free Veterans Day Dinner brings together a lot of old comrades and friends who seldom get to see each other.
We share tables and food, and space and food, and war stories and food. The shrimp, steak cooked to order, roast beef, and slow baked ham seemed especially tasty this year. Dacomputerman even got to spend time with a couple of waitresses he had not seen in a long time.
Always on the front of everyone's mind are those who were not there, those who have passed and those who never came home to enjoy any of the benefits of having been an American Warrior in a foreign land or of growing old with grandchildren at the knee.
It is an evening filled with good food, good friends, good memories, good times, and good feelings accompanied always and simultaneously with pain and guilt. You don't get this old or go through what these men and women have been through together, the one taking care of the other without all those ingredients wrapped into a single taco shell.
Some shells are soft, others are hard. But, without exception they all experience the same confused emotions. More than once during the evening the Computer Man went from a tear running down the cheek to a burst of pride in the heart in the twinkling of the eye A feast of good food, good times, and good friends topped off with a dash of love and a pinch of hate.
Each knowing we can do without food, we can do without beer, without soda, without movies, fast cars, TVs, computers, without politicians, money, chairs, tables, sofas, beds, stoves, refrigerators, and other creature comforts. We know because we did it. We did it when spouses were finding new mates closer to home - someone to hold at night, when civilian friends were too busy to remember, to write, to send a care package because no one really cared.
Each knowing we can do without all we take for granted and most of the things we think we cherish. Each knowing that we can't do without each other, without the man and woman in uniform, in the heat, in the cold, under fire half a world away. We know. We did it. What an evening! What a Veterans Day Dinner! And, to think ... I almost missed it.
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Because of all the different categories and genres that free e-cards come in, there is sure to be something suitable for the occasion, so there is sure to be loads for Columbus day.
Free e-cards are so easy to send any one can do it, as long as you no how to work the internet you are good to go, heck even a child could send one.
This holiday pays homage to Christopher Columbus, one of the best known explorers to this day. Born in the port city of Genoa, Italy, Columbus was convinced that the world was round, and thus if a ship was directed to the west, it would eventually reach the Indies in the east. At the time, all of eastern Asia, including China, Japan, and India were considered part of the area referred to as the Indies.
To prove the idea of a spherical planet, Columbus set out to track down royal sponsorship for an exploratory voyage, finally finding it at the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. They outfitted three ships with cloth, glass beads, and other goods for trading and Columbus and his crew navigated the infamous Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria across the Atlantic, landing in the New World on October 12, 1492.
This date was officially acknowledged by President Franklin Roosevelt to be Columbus Day in 1937, and as of 1971, the second Monday in October has been set aside as a federal holiday to commemorate it.
Though Columbus is no longer credited with the discovery of the Americas, as evidence of earlier voyages made by the Vikings and other explorers has come to light, his arrival in the New World was at least in part responsible for the colonization of the continents and the civilizations that have developed as a result.
The first people to commemorate Columbus and his legacy were Italian Americans in cities across the country. In some states, celebrations of Columbus Day have been augmented with commemorations of certain ethnic groups, such as the Native Americans for example, whose lives were no doubt the most affected by the appearance of Columbus and the influx of Spanish settlers that followed.
Colorado was the first state to adopt the celebration of Columbus Day in 1905.
I personally celebrate almost all holidays possible now by sending free e-cards. Millions of people worldwide do also. They are fast, easy and free, so there is no surprise as to this.
Free e-cards are extremely environmentally friendly, not one tree is ever cut down to make them, and no transportation, other than the internet is ever needed to send a free e-card.
So to make Columbus day even more memorable, send out a few free e-cards, it is sure to please someone up.
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