Veterans Day
Veterans Day
is a holiday to represent all veterans. This holiday is always on the eleventh
day of the eleventh month for this reason November 11, 1918, is generally
regards as end of “the war to end all wars”. In November 1919 President Wilson proclaimed
November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day. He said “To use in America,
the reflections of armistice day will be filled with solemn pride in the
heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory,
both because of the things from which it has freed us and because of the
opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace of justice in
the in councils of the nation.
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