Veterans Day 2010, the history and Obama's words to future
veterans serving in Korea Veterans Day didn't start out that
way. Originally, which was 91 years ago, it was called Armistice
Day to mark the official cessation of hostilities in World War
I, a.k.a. the Great War until that time. That ceasefire came on
the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in
1918. (See photo below of U.S. troops in France waiting out
literally the last two minutes of World War I.) The actual peace
treaty, the Treaty of Versailles, wasn't signed until the
following June 28. But that ensuing first fall of peace,
President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Nov. 11 Armistice Day, a
time for prayer, thanksgiving and appreciation for the
sacrifices of those lost. Parades and civic observances were
involved, but normal business was to cease only for a few
minutes around the armistice time. Nineteen years later Congress
turned Nov. 11 into a federal holiday, primarily to.... Not
coincidentally, President Obama, fresh from an ov