With Veterans Day approaching, the Dixon American Legion Post 208 and Auxiliary Unit are sponsoring a Turkey Dinner for Dixon veterans on Saturday, November 8th. The dinner will be held at the Dixon Veterans Hall with the cash bar opening at 6 PM and dinner to follow at 7 PM. Each year Post 208 hosts this low cost dinner to bring the vets together on the Veterans Day weekend. Cost for the dinner is $7.50, and tickets are available from Bob Havlin (707-450-0125) or William Allard (707-685-1433). Tickets also may be reserved by sending an email giving your name, address, phone number and how many tickets you’d like to reserve. Tickets are limited to 170. In addition, the Dixon VFW Post 8151 will be having their "Buddy Poppy" Sale that weekend and Tuesday, November 11th to remember the veterans and raise funds for their service activities. Post members will be located outside the Safeway entrances off Pitt School Road and offer the poppies for a donation. The red poppy became associated with war after the publication of a poem written by Col. John McCrae of Canada. The poem, "In Flander's Field," describes blowing red fields among the battleground of the fallen. For more than 75 years, the VFW's national Buddy Poppy program has raised millions of dollars in support of veterans' welfare and the well being of their dependents. Today, VFW Buddy Poppies are assembled by disabled, needy and aging veterans in VA Hospitals and domiciliaries across the country and are sold at VFW Posts and their Ladies Auxiliaries. Veterans Day began with a Congressional Act in 1938 which declared the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday - - a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be hereafter celebrated and known as "Armistice Day." Armistice Day was primarily a day set aside to honor veterans of World War I, but in 1954, after World War II had required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen in the Nation's history; after American forces had fought aggression in Korea, the 83rd Congress, at the urging of the veterans service organizations, amended the Act of 1938 by replacing the word "Armistice" with "Veterans." With the approval of this legislation in 1954, November 11th became a day to honor American veterans of all wars. Especially at this time when we have our service men and women serving in harm’s way, please remember them and show "Old Glory" on November 11th. |
