Veterans Day

Armistice Day was important to my great Uncle Burt Clark. He was there at the front when the guns were silenced at the end of World War I. It was on the the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. He always wondered why they waited until the exact hour to stop. He always remembered the silence. I remember when Armistice Day was changed to Veterans Day and my Uncle Burt wasn't all that happy about the change. He thought that they should have chosen a different day for Veterans. For awhile Veterans day was changed to the fourth Monday of October to make a long week end. Uncle Burt was even more unhappy about that change. Later it was changed back to the original day. By then he had passed away. Uncle Burt is buried at Fort Rosecrans on Point Loma in San Diego. He always said that was where he wanted to be buried. The cemetary was long closed but they often had openings on a first come first serve basis and the timing was right and he got his place. It is beautiful there.