"Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American." - Gen. George S. Patton. Armistice Day (also known as Remembrance Day) is today, November 11 and commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. As I put the flag out early this morning, I glanced across the street to a pretty blue colonial house. I could see the small vertical flag hanging in an upstairs window. It is a a service flag - it has a white field with a red border. There are 2 blue stars on it - one for each family member currently serving in the military.
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