New York Today: Remembering Our Veterans

...described the memorials as “surrogate graves for those who had died on foreign soil.” I always though Memorial Day honored our deceased vets and Veterans Day honored our living ones.

From the In The News section: “To accommodate gender neutrality, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is urging its subway personnel to no longer address passengers as ‘ladies and gentlemen.’ “ tune of “Hey There” (a possible gender-neutral subway announcement version) Hey there, you on this stalled number 4 Anyway you identify Please stand clear of the door. Hey there, you on this stopped subway ride, We don’t note what your gender is The info we’ll surrender is: Better forget it - Your schedule’s up in the air We now announce inclusively You’re late and we don’t care. Are you husbands or wives, our sisters or our brothers? For now, the M.T.A.’s more P.C. We found gender neutrality So please be who you want to be, you have your druthers!

Good thing that the victory statue in Staten Island is fixed to the pedestal. If she tried to take wing, she'd get zapped on that massive grid of power lines zigzagging overhead. Jaisus.

WEATHERING ARCTIC FREEZE Our bones weren't made to chill Nor skin to turn deep blue, And while Eskimos have no choice That needn't apply to you Or to shivering yours truly, Which is why I'm sounding my tuba In notes of impatient passion As my plane approaches Aruba.

And Guthrie's is the only one not defining America as religious or really good at killing.

Pledge honor, duty, courage. No more wars of choice, no more blank checks to the military-industrial complex, restore the draft. This weekend honor all Gold Star families. Read a book by Gold Star father Andrew Bacevich, watch “The Draft,” streaming on PBS.

what happened to the lost battalion hall on queens blvd.?

Thank you, Ms. Levine, for this thoughtful and sobering rememberance on our nation's Veterans -- too often forgotten in the rush and turmoil of today's world. Whether living or deceased, we Americans owe them all a debt of gratitude for their service and sacrifice.

Armistice Day. That is what I will be celebrating: the end of war, and not the continuation of war that Veterans Day has become.

To honor a veteran try not using a CVS pharmacy. They do not accept Express Scripts, the military's pharmacy benefit. They claim that they do but then charge full price. They also claim that Express Scripts declined including them in their network. Bottom line, it's CVS's bottom line.