Veterans Day
1.
public
holiday held on the anniversary of the end of World War I (November 11) to
honor US veterans and victims of all wars. It replaced Armistice Day in 1954
2. Commemorated as Armistice Day
beginning the following year, November 11th became a legal federal holiday in
the United States in 1938. In the aftermath of World War II and the Korean War,
Armistice Day became Veterans Day, a holiday dedicated to American veterans of
all wars.
3. Yes because those were the wars
where the army would fight for us trying to protect the country
4. Wednesday, November 11
5. Hang a flag or somethings in your yard and another way you can honor this
day by visit the grave to see all the guys that had to fight for us to safe us
6.
7. I learn that all these people
would fight for the country and for us that’s why I respect this because nobody
else would do this and risking their life to safe us
8. On June 4, 1926, Congress passed a
resolution that the “recurring anniversary of [November 11, 1918] should be
commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate
peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations” and that the
president should issue an annual proclamation calling for the observance of
Armistice Day. By that time, 27 state legislatures had made November 11 a legal
holiday. An act approved May 13, 1938 made November 11 a legal Federal holiday,
“dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be hereafter celebrated and known
as ‘Armistice Day.’” In actuality, there are no U.S. national holidays because
the states retain the right to designate their own, and the government can only
designate holidays for federal employees and for the District of Columbia.
In practice, however, states almost always follow the federal lead.
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