Who is honored on veterans day

Army Reservist reads some of the 58, names etched into "the Wall" of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as the sun rises in Washington, July 22, Memorial Day is a time to remember those who gave their lives for our country, particularly in battle or from wounds they suffered in battle. However, the fighting ended about seven months before that when the Allies and Germany put into effect an armistice on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

For that reason, Nov. In , Congress officially recognized it as the end of the war, and in , it became an official holiday, primarily a day set aside to honor veterans of World War I. Eisenhower Signs President Dwight D.

Eisenhower signs HR, June 1, This ceremony changed Armistice Day to Veterans Day. Congress signed the Uniform Holiday Bill in to ensure that a few federal holidays — Veterans Day included — would be celebrated on a Monday.

Officials hoped it would spur travel and other family activities over a long weekend, which would stimulate the economy. For some inexplicable reason, the bill set Veterans Day commemorations for the fourth Monday of every October.

However, unlike in the U. In Great Britain, the day is commemorated by church services and parades of ex-service members in Whitehall, a wide ceremonial avenue leading from London's Parliament Square to Trafalgar Square. Wreaths of poppies are left at the Cenotaph, a war memorial in Whitehall, which was built after the First World War. At the Cenotaph and elsewhere in the country, a two-minute silence is observed at 11 a.

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