Remember the Reason We Celebrate Veterans Day

Amistice Day, which we call Veterans Day so we can celebrate all our veterans, began at 11 o'clock on 11/11/1918.  Heres a quote from Wikipedia explaining what happened:

"Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France at 5:45 am, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the 'eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month' of 1918. But, according to Thomas R. Gowenlock, an intelligence officer with the U.S. First Division, shelling from both sides continued for the rest of the day, only ending at nightfall. The armistice initially expired after a period of 36 days and had to be extended several times. A formal peace agreement was only reached when the Treaty of Versailles was signed the following year." Read more about Armistice Day.

Here's a happy picture you may have seen before.  It's an American sailor , an American Red Cross Nurse, and two British soldiers celebrating on a street of Paris on November 11, 1918.

 
Public Domain. Created November 11, 1918.

                                      World War I gunners in this photo are wearing gas masks. 

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A few American nurses, who cared for the wounded in France.

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Belleau Wood Cemetery

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