11 November, 2005

Veterans Day

Happy Veterans Day to all who have served in our armed services!

The Library of Congress has a Veteran's History Project where you can hear and see the stories of our vets.



To find out how Armistice Day became Veterans Day, check out this page over at CNN.

Initially, Armistice Day was to be a day to honor veterans of World War I. But following the tremendous calls to arms and human sacrifice during World War II and the Korean conflict, veterans groups urged Congress to consider a day to celebrate U.S. veterans of all wars. On June 1, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed a bill changing Armistice Day to Veterans Day.

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