Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. --Mother Teresa
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living. --Sikh Guru Nanak
I went with a younger cousin to A & A Auto Repair.
Service staff graciously answered all our questions promptly which made a good first impression.
Did what they're in business to do
Has average prices
Did it for the price they quoted us.
Did it within the time they said they would
Delivered what they advertise
Followed CDC rules
Place was clean and organized
Ambiance was professional
Customer service was adequate
The owner(s) of this business like their Freedom so they have a daily Military and Veterans Discount to those who Serve or have Served as a token thanks to our GIs and we Veterans. A Veterans Discount means a lot to those unable to be employed due to military Service-connected disability as on limited fixed income.
According to Yelp ratings' definitions, 3 Stars is "Ok". That to me is an acceptable rating of a business that does day in and day out what they are in business to do. 4 and 5-Stars to me is when a business goes over and beyond what they are in the business to do. A & A Auto Repair earned 4th star for its Military and Veterans Discount.
While we waited we talked that on this day in history 29 December 1950- Time magazine selected "GI Joe" as Man of the Year. "G.I." was first stamped on many military items. The abbreviation stood for the material from which these items were made: galvanized iron. Later, the definition of GI broadened and during World War I it was used to refer to all things military-related. G.I. was reinterpreted as "government issue" or "general issue."
Soldiers in World War II start referring to themselves as GIs. Some Service-members used it as a sarcastic reference symbolizing their belief that they were just mass-produced products of the government. GI Joe then became a term for US. Service-members. Cartoonist Dave Breger, who was drafted into the US Army in 1941, is credited with coining the name with his comic strip titled "G.I. Joe," which he published in a weekly military magazine called Yank beginning in 1942. In 1964, US. toy company Hasbro, after taking note of competitor Mattel's success with the Barbie doll (launched in 1959), debuted "G.I. Joe," a military-themed line of action figures for children.
June 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, which became commonly known as the GI Bill. The famous legislation provided a range of benefits for returning World War II women and men Veterans including funding for college, home loans and unemployment insurance.
1996, Hasbro introduced an armed female military pilot, portrayed in authentic military gear, to the G.I. Joe line of action figures. This female is in direct response to consumer requests,'' said G.I. Joe Marketing Director Karen Lehman. In 1998, Hasbro added a female US. 82nd Airborne figure. She came with enough gear to get a pretty good amount of characterization.
2009, Hasbro released their first G.I. Joe film. It starred women and men military characters.
Summer 2019, a young girl from Arkansas won toy soldiers at an arcade while on a vacation. She noticed none of them looked like her. She had a problem with it and wasn't willing to stop until she saw change. "I've been wanting to have girl army men but there's no girl army men, so it's kinda weird," Vivian Lord said.
She wrote a Northeastern Pennsylvania toy company.
"My name is Vivian. I am six years old. Why do you not make girl army men? My friend's mom is in the army too," wrote Vivian.
Jeff Imel, president of BMC Toys, took Vivian's letter seriously, BMC's Green Army Women figurines became available Christmas 2020, in four different military poses.
"What's been really surprising to me is how many women have contacted me since Vivian's story aired on national television to say they wish they had little Green Army Women when they were children back in the '60s," Imel said.
For Christmas 2020, Vivian got her female toy soldiers in the mail. "It says BMC toys -- U.S. Soldiers plastic army women figures. It says 38 pieces, also it says a kickstarter up there," said Vivian. "And if you notice that, that person in the middle, it used to be a boy but now it is a girl. They changed their logo to a girl," said Vivian.
"I don't think anyone that knows Vivian was surprised about how she went about correcting it. That's her," explained Brittany Lord, Vivian's mom. "She's always been really into justice and things being equal and fair and treating everyone the same."
Among the toy's stances that were at stores Christmas 2021, was a female captain holding a handgun and binoculars and a kneeling female solider holding a bazooka, ready to launch.
For anyone wanting to change the way history has been written, Vivian has this advice:
"Never quit your dream. Keep going until it happens." read more