The date on the poster reads 2007 but I post it for our veteran's today. Thank you for your service to our country. Thank you for being willing to give all- including your life, if that is what it took to protect our freedom and the innocents throughout the world. I personally am glad that you did not have to pay the ultimate price and survived to read this post!


ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN PATRIOTIC HISTORY
NOVEMBER 11, 1918...

In the early morning hours of November 11, 1918, representatives of France, Britain and Germany met in a railroad car near Compiègne, France, to sign an armistice ending World War I, or the Great War, as it was known at that time. The cease-fire took effect at 11:00 a.m. that day - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Up and down the trenches, after four long years of the most horrific fighting the world had yet known, the guns fell silent. "The roar stopped like a motor car hitting a wall," one U.S. soldier wrote to his family. Soldiers on both sides slowly climbed out of the earthworks. Some danced; some cheered; some cried for joy; some stood numbed. The Great War had left some 9 million soldiers dead and another 21 million wounded. No one knows how many millions of civilians died. Much of Europe lay in ruins. But finally, with the armistice, it was "all quiet on the Western Front."
For many years November 11 was known as Armistice Day to honor those who fought in World War I. In 1954 Congress changed the name to Veterans Day to recognize all American veterans.
Every November 11 at 11:00 a.m., the nation pays tribute to its war dead with the laying of a presidential wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
But Veterans Day honors more than the dead. Memorial Day, observed in May, is for remembering soldiers who lost their lives in the service of their country. Veterans Day is set aside to honor and thank all who have served in the U.S. armed forces - particularly our 23 million living veterans.

Source: The American Patriot's Almanac, by William J. Bennett and John T. E. Cribb