Veterans Day, Remembrance Day, and Family Military History
The hosts open the program by acknowledging Veterans Day in the United States and Remembrance Day in Canada. They discuss the history of Armistice Day and the tradition of wearing poppies, noting regional differences in the custom's prevalence. Personal family histories are shared, including tributes to grandfathers who served as base commanders in the South Pacific and landed at Normandy Beach on D-Day.
veterans day· remembrance day· armistice day· poppies· normandy beach· purple heart
00:00 Boom, you're right in. Celebrating our vets and broadcasting live from the heart of Tix, Tix, Tix. It's the hill country in Texas, FEMA region number six. Good morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where we're also celebrating Membrance Day which is Canadians Veterans Day. I'm John C. DuBois. It's Crackpot and Buzzkill. In the morning. Yes indeed. We have two different kind of remembrances today. This is originally Armistice Day.
00:42 Oh, but nobody even knows what that is. Is this the poppy deal? Yeah, I think that would be true. This is Poppy Day? I think so, yeah. Armistice was that we stopped fighting. Isn't that what armistice means? World War I. It's not peace. Yeah, correct. In honor of those... But that is what Remembrance Day is for World War I. So that is the poppies, I think. Yeah, well, the poppies are rare. Yeah, when I was a kid, Poppies were everywhere, they would sell these little poppies. You know, you wear them around. And in the South, I've noticed it coincidentally being in the South on Veterans Day within the last decade, they still do it there. But in the North, in California, New York, forget it. Now, you damn Yankees, you don't understand.
01:35 Valor. Do they sell poppies in your neck of the woods? I have not looked, but I'll bet you they do. I'll bet you these people walking around with poppies would not surprise me. I do want to remember Lieutenant Commander Renwick Eugene Curry, base commander one of the islands in the South Pacific, and Lieutenant Albert E. Schoble. 741st landed at Normandy Beach D-Day. Both my grandfathers. Yeah, Normandy Beach. Yeah, that was a rough one. Yeah, he got a purple heart. It was a rough one. You know, I remember him distinctly saying, hey son, Normandy Beach, that was a rough one. I'll say, absolutely. I mean these days, definition of a rough one is I can't get Twitter to get two more impersonators removed.
