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“Hot rodding owes a lot to our veterans…”

We don’t know them all, but we owe them all….

Friday November 11th, our nation celebrates VETERANS DAY. Veterans Day is the time we recognize ALL Veterans who have served our great country. We recognize the Veterans who have served in all the conflicts our country has experienced. We recognize the Veterans who are still alive, as well as those that have passed away. Most importantly we remember and recognize those people who paid the ultimate price, by giving their life while fighting for our country. These are the true HERO’s of our country.

Please accept a heartfelt thank you from me to all of you who have served or are serving our great country today, in one of the various branches of the military. Because of you, we remain a free nation.

Hot rodding owes a lot to our veterans, especially the ones who served and fought in WWII.

Those veterans not only protected our way of life, but the world also. As newscaster Tom Brokaw said, “they

are the greatest generation”.

They also got many idea’s from the equipment they worked on and parts they used and took care of, and then adapted them to their hot rods. Military surplus became a way of building hot rods to run on the dry lakes, at Bonneville and on the drag strip too. Think “bomber seats”...from military airplanes, and may other parts too. The GI BILL (remember that!) helped many a returning soldier and sailor go to college and start their own hot rod type business. They started what we enjoy today.

All of our Veterans have written a blank check to our country, and put their lives on the line. For that we say THANK YOU...every day and in many ways. I too am proud to say that I served our country in the US NAVY…. “Drive ’Em Don’t Hide ’Em”