Armistice Day 1918-1940

This is a newspaper clipping from the Duluth News-Tribune Nov. 10, 1940 of my Grandfather showing my Father, at age 13, maps and historic material from World War 1 that he had collected. So Cool!


Today is Veterans Day... November 11... celebrating the service of all U.S. Military Veterans.

Thank you to all veterans who have served our country and continue to serve our country. For this I am truly grateful.


And a little history for you all....

For the United States, Armistice Day for November 11, 1919 was proclaimed by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.

A Congressional Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U.S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday: "a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day'."

The first national celebration of Veterans Day was celebrated in 1947 after a 2 year delegation to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower by World War II veteran Raymond Weeks from Birmingham, Alabama, who had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans, not just those who died in World War I.