At Diesel Tech we sincerely thank the members of our Armed Forces which have protected our rights and freedoms since the birth of our nation. We have the deepest respect and admiration for those that have paid and are willing to pay the ultimate price for our country.
This July we had the opportunity and privilege to interview and share the diesel passions of past and current serving militarymen. At the same time we embraced a promise to continue this tradition in July, and to recognize both the sacrifices and the victories of veterans and active serving members.
In remembrance of their willingness to be a part of Diesel Tech, we are pleased to present our 21 Diesel Salute in full to be read, enjoyed, and shared.
In closing, I am reminded of the words of Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote the following of Armistice Day, November 11, which would later be recognized as Veteran's Day.
So this book is a sidewalk strewn with junk, trash which I throw over my shoulders as I travel in time back to November eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two.
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, and when Dwayne Hoover 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.
~ Kurt Vonnegut