1. VETERAN’S DAY 2014

4.  There were 19 men who served in WWI as Choctaw Code Talkers.  Of those 19 there were four from present day Bryan County Oklahoma. They were as follows:  Joseph Oklahombi: born in Bokchito, Oklahoma, and was Oklahoma’s most decorated soldier of WWI  Benjamin Colbert of Durant, Oklahoma; who was the youngest Code Talker. His father served as a Rough Rider under Theodore Roosevelt, during the Spanish-American War.

5.  Charles Walter Veach from Durant, Oklahoma  And last but certainly not least :  Benjamin Wilburn Hampton of Bennington, Oklahoma

7. Veterans Day originated as “Armistice Day ” on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938.

10. In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.