The History of Veterans Day

The annual recognition of Veterans Day on the eleventh of November is back NINETEEN nineteenth date that became known as Armistice DayThat day was the first anniversary of the completion of the First World War.. The war ended when it implemented an armistice, or temporary cessation of attacks. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the holiday with these words: "For us in America, the reflections of Armistic e Day filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country and grateful for the victory, both for what it has freed us and for the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of nations "

The following year, France and the United Kingdom observed services, on the same day, for those unknown who died in war. A year later, the United States held a similar ceremony at the same time that Congress passed a law for a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to be placed in Arlington National Cemetery.

Congress passed a resolution, requesting the President to observe Armistice Day once a year, and that the president, meanwhile, issued. In 1938, he became a national holiday, and the states retained the right to appoint their own individual holidays. On 1 June 1954, after World War II and the Korean War produced millions of new war veterans, President Dwight D. Eisenhower . Eisenhower renamed Armistice Day to Veterans Day.

Congress designated the observance of Veterans Day on the fourth Sunday of October. However, most states chose to recognize Veterans Day as it originally was on November 11. . As a result, in 1975, Congress formally changed the federal celebration of Veterans Day to November 11, and it would take effect in 1978.