Topic: free chicken
started by: twingroves
Posted by twingroves on Nov. 11 2012,6:41 pm
seen a add in the paper where a restaurant on the east side of town was haveing free chicken dinners to all vets on sunday nite ate there a lot before went there they took my name and how many witch was 2 sat down on bench to wait to be called 8 people come after me and was only 2 per time they got seated before me i asked her about it and she said she forgot it would be 5 min longer left never going back heres to them 
Posted by grassman on Nov. 12 2012,4:04 am
Well if two were witches, can you blame her? 
Posted by This is my real name on Nov. 12 2012,4:41 am
Why did you wait for four groups of two to be seated before finally saying something?
Posted by twingroves on Nov. 12 2012,9:23 am
i thought they had a reservation of some kind
Posted by GEOKARJO on Nov. 12 2012,10:43 am
Went to Applebees Great Food and Great Service. I go there every veterans day. 
Posted by RET on Nov. 13 2012,9:24 am
I retired from the Navy in 85 and have only gone to one of these free meals and that was at the Steak House that used to be on E Main. I worked the entire evening helping, I guess it is just me but I don't feel right expecting or receiving recognition or a free meal for serving my Country. To each their own.
Posted by Expatriate on Nov. 13 2012,9:58 am
(RET @ Nov. 13 2012,9:24 am)
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I guess it is just me but I don't feel right expecting or receiving recognition or a free meal for serving my Country. To each their own.
I also consider this type of event cheesy, glory hounds abound. but as you stated "to each their own"
The true meaning of Armistice Day or Veteran's Day as we call it now, was to remember all those who have lost their lives in the numerous foreign wars and pledge never again to this stupidity. It started with the end of World War I, the war to end all wars! World War I ended on November 11, 1918..
Posted by Botto 82 on Nov. 13 2012,10:54 am
I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ day is not.
So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things.
What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.
And all music is.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Posted by Botto 82 on Nov. 13 2012,10:57 am
The way I figure it, I had enough free meals while I actually was in the military, since I wasn't an officer. I don't need any more free meals, as a result. Some people, on the other hand, will push past old people with walkers and mothers with babies alike, just to get at something that's free.
To each his own, I guess...
Posted by Liberal on Nov. 13 2012,12:10 pm
I think it's great that the restaurants do that, but I'd rather pay for my meal than sit in a line waiting to eat. I got enough of that in the Army.Sitting in the line out in the field in the winter was the worst, you'd have a 20-30 minute wait for food that was soggy from the steam they used to keep it warm.
Posted by Common Citizen on Nov. 13 2012,7:44 pm
I think it is nice that some business owners want to show their thanks to Veterans. It's not a hand out when it's a gift. Sometimes we get gifts from people when we don't think we deserve it. Sometimes it's more important to the person giving than the person receiving......nuff said.
Posted by bulldog on Nov. 13 2012,8:10 pm
I dont know what military you were in botto, but i paid for every meal i ate while i was serving my four years. it gets taken out of your pay you just dont have to hand it over to them .