Thanks to our Men & Women in the Armed Forces

An amazing day here in London, with the entire city coming to a standstill at 1100 GMT for two minutes of silence to honor the passing of the last three WWI veterans here in the UK this year.  Over on espn.com today,  Ivan Maisel has a great story on the stadiums across the country that are dedicated to the memory of the men and women we've lost in defence of our country.  Including the favorite of BON'ers everywhere, DKR Memorial Stadium.

So take two minutes of your own today, and spare a thought for our fellow Horns fans - and fans of all teams across the country - who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

The words "Memorial Stadium" appear in stories before millions of eyes every college football season without ever being read. It's a name glossed over in the search for news of this team or that game.

The teams come, the games go. The memorials at the 15 college football stadiums named in honor of this nation's military veterans stand in vigil, commemorating the men and women who died and those who came home in service of the nation.

They are as old as the 1920s, when several universities built stadiums to honor the deceased in "The Great War," and as modern as today, when Texas installs a statue of a World War I "doughboy" in a plaza outside of Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.

The stadiums stand to this day as living memorials, even as they have been enlarged, modernized and enlarged again. In Austin, the doughboy statue arrives Wednesday, 85 years after the stadium opened its gates. The university searched the country for a "used" doughboy, a statue whose commemoration had outlived its purpose. It's a credit to the nation that Texas gave up the search and commissioned a new sculpture.