The San Diego Veterans For Peace Armistice/Veterans Day ceremony was conducted with a small crew of SDVFP members and supporters plus a Blue Star family singer who performed “In Flanders Fields” as our closer.
Masks were worn except when speaking and social distancing was observed throughout.
Jim Brown welcomed all with a short discussion of how Armistice Day was founded by President Wilson after WW1 to remind us to never again choose war to handle our problems. He noted the cost in lives and treasure was too high for all concerned and to use this day to remember to work for peace!
San Diego Veterans For Peace Members: (from left to right, George Jiracek, Paul Ross, Jack Doxey and Vic White.
After WW2, the Armistice Day recognition somehow morphed into Veterans Day which then glorified American victories in war and featured fabulous weapons of destruction and military might. The headstones are inscribed with the names of the fallen soldiers of San Diego during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
SDVFP Members: Paul Ross, Jim Brown, Vic White and George Jiracek.
After the opening comments, as a solemn memorial, we read the names of the San Diego’s fallen soldiers of the Iraq and Afghanistan war.
Also attending the ceremony were Blue Star Family members Kate Moore, sister Hayden Moore and Tara Moore-Fox.
In Flanders Fields by Kate Moore
Closing our ceremony was the singing of “In Flanders Fields” by Kate Moore, 14, in honor of her father a combat naval aviator pilot and veteran of the recent wars, who died of cancer just before she was born. Click on the link above to play the video.
“Work for Peace everyday not just Armistice Day”
Jim Brown
San Diego Veterans For Peace
Armistice/Veterans Day
November 11, 2020
Balboa Park
San Diego CA.
SDVFP TEAM FOR TODAY was Jim Brown, Paul Ross, Vic White, George Jiracek, Sean McCrea, Sean’s daughter Chloe and her two brothers, and the Tara Moore-Fox family.
