Armistice Day was originally intended as a commemoration of the end — at the 11th hour of the 11h day of the 11th month of 1918 — of an awful and largely pointless war that over four years had cruelly ...
Armistice Day is observed in Britain every 11 November to mark the agreement signed between the Allies and Germany that brought an end to the First World War and to remember the soldiers who gave ...
Spokane’s Armistice Day celebration was described as “dignified,” “quiet” and “touching.” This was a change from the celebration two years earlier, which had been described as “rowdy,” disgraceful” ...
Bells worldwide were rung at the eleventh hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, to celebrate the end of The Great War, the “war to end all wars.” That tradition continued annually for 35 ...
In 1954, the US Congress renamed Armistice Day to Veterans Day. The stated reason was to remember all generations of US veterans, not just veterans from the First World War. Congress advanced this ...
Armistice Day? What is that? Isn’t Nov. 11 Veterans Day? The confusion arises primarily from the fact that powerful institutions in our country engineered a cultural shift that led to the celebration ...
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