Veterans Day
Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day:
Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S military veterans, while
Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving.
It is a federal holiday that id observed on November 11th. Major
hostilities of War World 1 were formally ended at the 11th hour
of the month 11th and day 11th of 1918.
Veterans Day was moved to the fourth Monday of October, in 1978 it was moved
back to its original celebration on November 11th. President Reagan
honored Weeks at the White House with the presidential Citizenship medal in
1982 as the driving force for the national holiday. Though the Treaty of
Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, November 11th remained
in the public imagination as the date that marked the end of the Great War. An
unidentified American soldier killed in the war was buried at Arlington
National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.; the U.S. Congress had declared the day a
legal federal holiday in honor of all those who participated in the war. On
June 4, 1926, Congress passes a resolution that the “recurring anniversary of
Nov.11th, 1918 should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer
exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual
understanding between nations.”
Reflection: what this day is mostly about is appreciating
the people who fought for our country so that we could be free. Many volunteers
had died and left they’re family so that we can have the ability to make our
lives however we want if it wasn't for them this country would've been
ruled by a person who chooses the wrong
and would've turned this place into bad.
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