I do all too well remember when it was called Armistice Day..and I knew why, but Veterans's Day says much more. Oddly enough, the important things from Veterans' Day include the Stewart line of my family. My great grandmother, Granny Kate Kennedy (nee Steuart), was with Teddy Roosevelt and Clara Barton, in Cuba. She helped in the hospitals there and opened an 'industrial orphanage' for children in the Matanzas Province, who had lost their families during the Spanish-American War. Her son, Dr. Walter Kennedy, was a battlefield surgeon in France during WWI and at Walter Reed. He was Colonel. While he was overseas, both my grandmother and father survived the 'Spanish flu' and never had the flu again in their lives. My father had just survived a second bout with Rheumatic fever when the Spanish flu hit them. I have here at my house, 2 American flags, one a 50 star from my grandfather's coffin. The other flag, a 48 star flag, is from my father's coffin. My father died on my parents' 25 anniversary, November 8, 1955. His funeral, a military funeral, was held on Nov. 11, 1955. Donna