Over Veterans day I decided to take my six year old son out to seem some static displays around base. It was one of those traditional things that my family on my parents side did for me when I was a kid. <\/p>\n
We stopped by the Cemetery on post<\/a> first in order for hem to start understanding what Veterans day is and how we should be grateful for those who have gone into harms way on our behalf. I may have to wait until he his older or a different approach. It did not help that he ran through the grassy area and got water in his shoes. He started to get cold so we moved on to the next site on post that had some static Tank and other military vehicles<\/a>. We saw tanks from different decades and wars. Lasted longer then I thought he would. Lastly we went to the Air Force side and ran into a few hidden historical gems. <\/p>\n The first one was a F-16(A?) Falcon<\/a> on display at the National Guard Headquarters. The interesting fact was that this F-16 Falcon had taken part in the Air Patrols immediately following the September 11th attacks. Unless someone took the time look at it, they would never know. The other gems were at a static aircraft display<\/a> with over 15 aircraft. Two of them were rare finds as it turns out. They were the Douglas B-18 Bolo <\/a>and the DouglasB-23 Dragon<\/a>. Both were pre-world war two aircraft and were not used on the war and not very well known at all. But I think that make it more special because it was something new to see in how this history of aviation progressed from the biplane to the monoplane. More so because it seems that number of known examples of these aircraft in the world is in the single digits. I was able to show my son two such aircraft in one day. <\/p>\n So in short I was able to show some history and learn some myself. But given all the things that one can do on Veterans day, it always interesting to find out how much history at each post. <\/p>\n Also on a separate note, what has worked for you in explaining Veterans day to Children of single digits?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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