Happy Armistice Day
World War I officially ended on June 28, 1919, with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The actual fighting between the Allies and Germany, however, had ended seven months earlier with the armistice, which went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. Armistice Day officially became a holiday in 1926, and a national holiday 12 years later. On June 1, 1954, the name was changed to Veterans Day.
In 1968, new legislation changed the national commemoration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. It soon became apparent, however, that November 11 was a date of historic significance to many Americans. Therefore, in 1978 Congress returned the observance to its traditional date.
And, I bet you thought I didn’t know that! Ha, I am smarter than a sixth grader!
Nice to see the yanks actually conforming to what the REST OF THE WORLD does for a change!
I watched the queen lay the poppy wreath at the Cenotaph. In the past it’s moved me to tears. This year I was more angry about our inability to learn anything from war. Here we are, at it again.