Veterans Day 11.11.11
Our Veterans Day this year is 11.11.11 . Although officially ending in 1919, the fighting during World War I, also known as "The Great War", ceased seven months earlier when an armistice between the Allied Nations and Germany was signed on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month . November 11, 1918 became known as the end of "the war to end all war." A year later in November of 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11th as the first commemoration of Armistice Day. Armistice Day was approved as a legal holiday May 13, 1938 making November 11 th of each year a day dedicated to the the cause of world peace and was primarily set aside to honor veterans of World War I. But in 1954, after World War II had required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen in the Nation's history and after American forces had fought aggression in Korea, Congress amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word "Armistice...