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On this auspicious morning, I want to take a short moment to thank all the Men and Women who have chosen to serve the people of this nation in the military and/or civil servants. I have met many over the years and still communicate with a few I knew when I was in the Army myself. Regardless of what we might think about the war in Iraq, we have many thousands of our brothers, sisiters, moms, dads, and children serving now in harms way. Many, too, have already paid the supreme price. Some do not understand, but that's OK, too.
Now on to the celebrations ...
Have you ever wondered about hamburgers and hotdogs ... where they came from??? Well ... just in case Your answer is YES!!! ... I have toiled and searched to uncover the truth ... 
Why is a hamburger called a hamburger although it contains no ham?
During a trip to Asia in the early 1800s, a German merchant - it is said - noticed that the nomadic Tartars softened their meat by keeping it under their saddles. The motion of the horse pounded the meat to bits. The Tartars would then scrape it together and season it for eating. The idea of pounded beef found its way back to the merchant's home town of Hamburg where cooks broiled the meat and referred to it as it as Hamburg meat.
German immigrants introduced the recipe to the US. The term "hamburger" is believed to have appeared in 1834 on the menu from Delmonico's restaurant in New York but there is no surviving recipe for the meal. The first mention in print of "Hamburg steak" was made in 1884 in the Boston Evening Journal.
A butcher from Frankfurt who owned a dachshund named the long frankfurter sausage a "dachshund sausage," the dachshund being a slim dog with a long body. ("Dachshund" is German for "badger dog." They were originally bred for hunting badgers.) German immigrants introduced the dachshund sausage (and Hamburg meat) to the United States. In 1871, German butcher Charles Feltman opened the first "hotdog" stand in Coney Island in 1871, selling 3,684 dachshund sausages, most wrapped in a milk bread roll, during his first year in business.
In the meantime, frankfurters - and wieners - were sold as hot food by sausage sellers. In 1901, New York Times cartoonist T.A. Dargan noticed that one sausage seller used bread buns to handle the hot sausages after he burnt his fingers and decided to illustrate the incident. He wasn't sure of the spelling of dachshund and simply called it "hot dog."
So, there you have it ... the why's and wherefore's of hotdogs and hamburgers.
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