Commemorating Veterans Day
Today, Sunday November 11th is Veterans Day. By way of a little history, while World War I officially ended with the Treaty of Versailles in June of 1919, active hostilities ceased on November 11th of 1918. In November of the following year, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed a commemoration of the day as “Armistice Day.” In 1954, after the end of the Second World War, the 83rd Congress amended the commemoration to the new observance of Veterans Day. For some years, Veterans